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Stepping Right Off The Page

Jun 13, 2003 | Chronicles

STEPPING RIGHT OFF THE PAGE Or Where I’m Allowed One Wish… It seems like ages ago that the original of Gandalf the Grey was stolen from an exhibition. http://www.john-howe.com/forum/smf/index.php?topic=1905.0 I’ve often been asked if I could paint it again, but you...

Where I Have a Mystical Experience…

Jun 6, 2003 | Chronicles

Or: Adventures In The Aisles of Plenty Most people make their personal connections to the universe in the hinterlands of the sublime – the far plutonian shore, the precipitous precipice, the wind-swept wilderness, in those blessèd realms where you can feel small...

There and Back Again

Feb 13, 2003 | Chronicles

John’s Big Day Out… or a Few Days in Middle-Earth. Just returned from New Zealand. Had a free day in Wellington, and the privilege of seeing the Lord of the Rings Exhibition at Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand. (Unless my memory is totally shot, “Te Papa...