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Why I Hate Shopping

Apr 2, 2004 | Chronicles

Misadventures in the Land of Plenty Why do I dread going shopping? Especially for food (which admittedly is unwise if not downright idiotic). I think my problem is concentrating. There’s just so much to look at in a supermarket that I forget the food; even a list...

To Make a Short Story Long

Feb 5, 2004 | Chronicles

Or All About Drawers and Dreams… Once upon a time, I had the ambition of actually writing (and while building castles in the air, of actually getting someone else to illustrate) a children’s story, the initial idea growing out of a portion of a picture I had done for...

Chiaroscuro

Jan 9, 2004 | Chronicles

The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burn With love. How pitiful is our enforced return To those small things we are the masters of. Mervyn Peake, 1950 MERVYN PEAKE (1911 – 1968) I am totally under...

Imagining Things…

Nov 28, 2003 | Chronicles, Out & About

Or Why “Imagine” Minus Two Letters is Worth a Thousand Words… PARIS Out with Vancouver, in with Paris! No sooner is one show cancelled than a totally different one appears. “The Lord of the Rings: From Imagination to Image” will open at the Bibliothèque Nationale de...

Flavour of the Month

Nov 19, 2003 | Chronicles

Or Fantasy Illustration 101… For ages, I have been wondering how to set up a manageable fan art section on the site. Not wishing to add yet another post-your-own gallery to the thousands that are already navigating in cyberspace, and fearing it could well outgrow the...