Picasso once remarked that at 4 years old he could draw* like Rafael, and it took him a lifetime to learn to draw like a child. I found...

The problem with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is that Frank Gerry's building will always upstage any art that is in it. The building...

Milly Betten & Ada van Wonderen An intimate and well balanced show exploring Minimalist themes in painting and sculpture at Galerie...

Taking this photo of David's fig leaf, in its glass case (on the rear of the statue's plinth, V&A London), I was unaware that I would...

Sea-Saw mark 2. Pleased to get this design finally cut in stainless steel by the very talented Jan-Willem at WaterSnijtechniek in...

Trying out some self hardening clay. I've never been a huge fan but it seems things have moved on from the days of Das. Maquette relief...

Some recreational brain stimulation, and a bier, with amigo Pete Simpson in the Heks, Deventer. Fellow artist, sculptor, poet, musician,...

Life Ladder #2 at The Kiek-Kus Gallery, Deventer, Holland. Margriet Pronk of Galerie Kiek-kus, doing a happy dance with Life Ladder.

Following his exhibition Size Does Matter earlier this year, sculptor Ronald A. Westerhuis' massive stainless steel sculpture Stepping...

Having recently re-discovered the Japanese art of Kintsugi, it led me to come up with this image. Kistsugi being the art of repairing...

Screwed II with an experimental rust finish on show at Galerie Kiek-Kus Deventer, Holland. A variation on an earlier piece called...

Had fun taking this through Eurostar security today (on route to an exhibition at the Galerie Kiek-Kus in Holland). I thought the staff...

Saw this beautiful little mobile by Alexander Calder yesterday at the Frieze Masters. Only $450,000 (+5% import tax). Shame, didn’t have...

Although he lived most of his life in Paris, Brancusi remained essentially Romanian in spirit. His studio was reminiscent of the peasant...

What was I saying about all the plastic washed up on our beaches? Well, all this was all gathered in the space of 15 minutes on a small...

I've always been a compulsive beachcomber, and being once more in Crete, a beach is never that far away. Of course these days there's a...

I don’t usually get too excited about public statuary, but the monument to the philosopher Spinoza in Amsterdam is more imaginative that...

This is an idea for a sculpture that's long been gestating. It is of course a play on Dali's Lobster Telephone, also known as...

I love this photo of Claes Oldenburg carrying his giant toothpaste tube in Oxford Street. It may not look it, but this was London during...

There are many examples around the world of artist’s studios being preserved after the artist's death, and becoming museums. Some appear...