Chris, Miles & ARC

Chris Miller is “on about” the ARC again. I am very glad for the ARC it is essential. The submissions to the competition of 2007 are perhaps not up to some of the best of the past years. Miles has done a noble job in his critique. I am less enthusiastic but he has made […]

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Gang of Four

Nothing to do with the Lib-Dems! I was delighted to have a early morning visitor and thought I would take a photo of him for the website. I was surprised to discover he had three friends with him. Pheasants are not native to our islands but are a very common sight, four cocks together in […]

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Building A New Sculpture Web Site

Building a new website sounds easy once you have mastered the software or programming. The trouble is that it has to be good; one has to be ambitious and the more one sees of other peoples webs sites the more ambitious one gets. However time is valuable the line must be drawn somewhere. I think […]

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Frederick MacMonnies

Happy New Year.In my continuing search for Great Sculpture of all time (see link on the right), I had rather discounted, an American Sculptor, Frederick William MacMonnies, 1863-1937 known for such horrors as this in the Metropolitan!But I was pleasantly surprised to discover that in Brooklyn New York there is a triumphal Arch not unlike […]

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Chicago and The North of England

So what is it about Art that connects Chicago and the North of England? A couple of years ago a stone sculpture was stolen from a country house in the North of England and eventually turned up in an Art Dealers in Chicago. Now we hear that The Art Institute of Chicago was sold a […]

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