As my plane touched down in Berlin, it was hard to describe the mixture of emotions I felt. I’ve been a travel journalist for more than 15 years and been everyw
My first thoughts on beginning the series were to paint exactly what I remembered, but then I began to throw the net wider, and included London images which I had not personally experienced, as for the length of the war I was based in Hampshire. Pictures which occurred, so to speak, in my mind's eye. This then is the basis for the series, and indeed show beginning its life at The Bentley Priory Museum in November 2023. Whilst the paintings were not made in 1940–45 they are based on real experiences which I was only able to see and then reimagine, not actually represent at the time as I was born in 1940. Interestingly, the Imperial War Museum only take art works produced contemporaneously. Somewhat difficult for me to assemble a whole show at the age of four, so, I am the contemporaneous one in this equation, not the actual paintings! In the autumn of 1940, in the midst of The Battle of Britain (April till October), my mother was effectively dive-bombed in the open countryside cl
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On a late August afternoon my friend John Hill drove me across the city of Zurich, climbing the suburban heights until we stopped at the gates of Fluntern Cemetery. We walked up the last incline to where, among the trees and billard-table lawns, we saw the Joyces’ grave. There was no mistaking it. Just above the grave is the Giacometti-like sculpture of the writer himself, the work of American artist Milton Hebald. There James Joyce sits, in characteristic pose, deep in conversation, head tilted, one leg resting on the other knee, cigarette poised, his slim cane delicately balanced. Someone once remarked that he held his cane like a musical instrument.