You've invested in a new, original work of art and whether it's intended to be a statement centrepiece or a small pop of creativity in a...

Every new year starts with good intentions — a resolution to do this, that, or the other. And this need to ring in the new at the same...

If you've been toying with the idea of buying art, perhaps even musing about building a collection, you are not alone. But having...

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom — Aristotle You might have come across this philosophical nugget, but phrased...

It is not every day you get the chance to have your art appear alongside a whole roster of artistic luminaries — not to mention other...

Art, as I’ve mentioned before, is good for you. Not only does it provide a number of different routes to a state of wellbeing (see my...

It doesn't take too long online to find a blog listing the best paintings that you simply must see in whichever art gallery in the world....

Imagine this: you spent your life working for the post office, never having earned more than £23,000 a year. You lived for 50 years in a...

We all want better health, to feel less stressed, more content and just plain happier. Yet the pressures of modern life seem to conspire...

Tom Hanks, in the guise of Forrest Gump famously decreed that life was like a box of chocolates. It has been the lot of the...

There are two paintings hung next to each other on the wall. They are by different artists, but otherwise are the same size, of a similar...

Every now and then the well of inspiration for creating art runs a little dry. Or so it seems. Although it doesn’t feel it, this is a...

If one of the purposes of art is to take the commonplace, hold it against the light and show it from a different perspective, then...

"If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail." It's a great phrase, isn't it, and one that says a lot about the need to be organised in...

What it is Here's where I select one of my artworks and talk about it in a little more depth, with the aim of explaining why I'm...

It is true in art and it is true in life. We humans can be funny things. We get stuck in our ways and become comfortable with them. Yes,...

Up to this point, my main career has been journalism and, for 27 years, I worked as a news sub-editor on the London Evening Standard. A...