I longed to experience the Edo period more deeply by hiking the Nakasendo and feeling a closer connection to Hiroshige and Hokusai.

As an artist and lover of art history, I've always been fascinated by the unexpected connections between different cultures and artistic...

I want to share with you a work of art you might not be so familiar with. Goethe once made a comment about minor artists and their place...

Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the most celebrated artists of the Dutch Golden Age, is renowned for his masterful use of light and shadow, as...

Creativity, at its core, is about sharing one's vision with the world. When a maker creates, they share their emotions, whether it's joy...

When you are travelling you can never fully appreciate which are the moments that will leave the deepest impression on you. You have to...

Since 2019, a desire to travel to Japan had been festering within me. With the pandemic this desire grew only stronger as it was delayed...

In a previous blog post I discussed the influence of Japanese prints on Proust. As a specialist of Chinese art at an auction house...

The French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922), author of In Search of Lost Time (A la recherché du temps perdu) was an intensely visual...

Though not as popular as 'The Great Wave' or 'Red Fuji', 'A Sudden Gust of Wind' usually comes third in popularity in the series 36 Views...

The National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden has a fascinating group of European-influenced paintings by Hokusai on Dutch paper, which I was...

I was fortunate enough while passing through Leiden, Holland, to be given special access to the Volkekunde Museum (the National Museum of...

As manager of my own website, I can tell from online traffic which designs are more popular than others. Sometimes I understand why a...

As we approach the New Year, I felt it was appropriate to discuss my design of new year fireworks on the Thames and Hiroshige's...

As an artist working with strong Japanese influences, I sometimes get asked about my justification for this cultural 'appropriation'....

Foujita is most famous for his paintings of nudes and cats. Indeed, it's his paintings of cats that drew me to him the most. My other...

On a sunny Saturday, Vicky (my fellow pilgrim) and I made the journey to the Holy Grail of the Foujita trail: Foujita's house and studio...

On Thursday 18th August, I arrived at my second stop of the Foujita trail: the Musee D'Art Moderne De Paris, which is interestingly...

People go to Paris to see the Eiffel tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame cathedral etc...but I went this time with a very different purpose in...

All art is a self-portrait, and this painting of a ship on gold leaf in mineral pigments is no different. It has a lot within to unpack...