Today I drew gay magpies. UPDATE 29th November: here they are, awaiting marking.

"I'm not keen on cauliflower"; "I dislike the trilby". This morning I was thinking about English and our habit of i...

My seven art history lectures in the first half of this term have featured an ever-widening range of music. Here is everything I can recall...

Highlights of a trip to London at the weekend: Contemporary Applied Arts : intriguing ornaments and a surreal tea party; Art In Marylebone ...

or The dread of a task unfulfillable and the euphoria of a deadline met. I've had two difficult projects in the past fortnight. The firs...

Southampton; Portsmouth: Two universities at which I am enrolled. Hartley; Frewen: Two libraries that I can access. Library Of Congress; Dew...

I should have perceived it when I stopped to inspect an enormous onion in the road, outside the wholesalers in the High Street: to bicycle a...