Three La Manga Sketches
On a recent visit to La Manga Club in the southeast of Spain, near Cartagena in the region of Murcia, I painted in watercolour and scribbled in ink the following three sketches, showing roof...
Pyotr F. Sokolov: Watercolour Portraits in the Age of Pushkin
Beyond the Cyrillic curve and the printed page, if the Golden Age of Russian poetry has a visual representative it may lie in the works of Pyotr F. Sokolov. From the early...
Mughal Painting and the Akbarnama: Miskina and Mukund
The South Asian rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London revel in the rich splendour of Mughal painting, with its flattened perspectives, bustling locales, and bold colour palettes made up...
Amsterdam Watercolour: Apartment View
And so here lies a second painting, in ink and watercolour, of the view from the rear balcony of my old apartment in the Oud-Zuid neighbourhood of Amsterdam. While the first looked...
Amsterdam Watercolour: Two Sheds in Autumn
At the end of last October, my partner and I departed Amsterdam and returned to York. The cause was my commencing a PhD in literature at the University of York. While there...