1. Arpita Singh : Remembering – at the Serpentine Gallery, London

      Arpita Singh’s retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery in London gives us her career from the early 1970s to the present. It includes huge narrative oil paintings and small abstract watercolors.     I could feel the intensity in each work no matter what the style or size. Each viewer can find a different story […]

  2. Hanaa Malallah : Ruins and Research

          I first met Hanaa Malallah in 2007 just after she came to London from  war torn Iraq. .  Above you see her applying burned and shredded  canvas to one of  her works  The burning of her canvas was her response to the  nightmare of destruction she faced in Baghdad every time she […]

  3. UK is still a great place to visit

            This cake is a replica of Henry’s house on Amorgos in the Cyclades It was the star of his 90th birthday party in Ufford Suffolk hosted by his niece Tig. More on that soon We went from the airport directly to Saffron Walden where Henry’s sister lives in a small 16th century […]