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Once I was in the Giardini I found myself surrounded by work that had something to say about my own approach to art making. I have for a long time been looking for something beyond the art market as a measure of worth and here I felt were quite a few artists that were making work not just for its own sake, but for some sort of 'right thing to do' or necessity born out of their o...

Venice isn't all about visual art. While we were there there it was the 20th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, directed by Wayne McGregor. The last time we were in Venice we went to see 'We Humans Are Movements' staged in what is usually the home for cinema on the Lido, which was a showcase of McGregor's work with students. This time we went to see three different pr...

My focus when visiting Venice Biennales has usually been on drawing, but this year there are a lot of exhibitions devoted to the ethnic traditions of the artists involved, and drawing is not always central to those cultures. I have therefore decided to simply show more of what I felt moved me or gave me pause for thought, especially as the biennale selection process does ...

A painting from my parent's house

My step mother died last year and it took a while to sort out her affairs. However, her niece contacted me recently to tell me that everything was now in order and that a couple of items that she believed had come to her aunt from my dad needed to find a home. She had found ...