By general consent 2016 was not a good year and I’m not going to mention many of the grim world issues or celebrity deaths or trivia that have preoccupied the media, social included, during the last twelve months. Suffice it to say that the words “peace”, “hope”, “equality”, “justice”, “freedom”, Continue Reading
The Disasters of War
December Blog – Goya and his portraits
I had always thought my knowledge of Goya was fairly substantial as, not only had I seen many of his works in the Prado, Madrid, but I had also studied the “Disasters of War” series of his etchings at the British Museum, sketched a few of his works and read Continue Reading