Self-portrait in a convex mirror David Hockney has this thing, explored at length in his book  Secret Knowledge , about the use of optics by...

Southampton University campus Southampton University campus Southampton University campus A photo I took on New Year's Day on Clevedon P...

As a birthday celebration for my partner, we went up to London last weekend to see the exhibition Turner & Constable: Rivals & Origi...

So, Christmas and New Year... Fun as it is to see it enacted on a primary-school stage, not many of us in these sceptical days – surely even...

I really meant to put up some of the photographs I took over our Christmas / New Year break today but, unexpectedly, it SNOWED here during t...

Strange, isn't it, how things can "go viral" and yet pass you by. But then, not everybody catches a real virus like flu either...

In a very early post ( Don't Ask Me , 2009) I wrote: I have always liked the idea that the Buddha regarded certain questions as unanswer...

Two companionable crows admire the sunset Ah, tranquility! A state much sought after, and best achieved without the aid of tranquilisers if ...

Alice Neel,  Richard , 1980   Oil on canvas. 111.8 x 76.2 cm, 44 x 30 in ⁣ © The Estate of Alice Neel. The bright white light that falls fro...