
Scarlett Johansson & Eva
When I begin a portrait like that of Scarlett Johansson, or Eva, or Masha (Maria), women I may have known only briefly in real life
Painter, Novelist, Poet

When I begin a portrait like that of Scarlett Johansson, or Eva, or Masha (Maria), women I may have known only briefly in real life

Sometimes I wish I could wake up as someone else, but then, if I had been someone else without my background and history in which,

‘The Brighton Triptych’: inspired by my Brighton poem ‘Lemon Jelly’ and my beloved Jean – a vision of goodness and loveliness distilled from all the

In the case of ‘Portrait of a Scottish Poet and Painter’ (one of many of this stunning beauty scattered randomly among the chaotic pages of

One day in 2005 it struck me that the face emerging from the mess of pigments which I kept scraping down was an image not

Having made my irrevocable decision to die, I began through painting to rediscover life and who else I am. And in hitherto inaccessible or forbidden