Diary of an imp

Last weeks blog was about the illustrators of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, and especially about the pictures they did of the sc...

  As Christmas appears head and shoulders above the horizon, that hardy perennial of the season, A Christmas Carol will no doubt also a...

This blog seems to have generated a little theme about art, artists and the mentally unbalanced, although it wasn't planned, similar...

One of my favourite paintings is Pieter Bruegel's ' Hunters in the Snow ', a wonderful evocation of winter and one of the c...

It's interesting to reflect on the influence that past archaeological investigations have had on our modern way of seeing the world....

 Over the past month or so, I've written about a series of artists who might be considered distinctly odd.  Last week there was Géri...

 In the 1820's and 30's if you had visited the studios of artists across Britain and Europe, amongst the various casts and oth...