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...

Around the end of the year, many people like to look back and measure their stages of development with their achievements. I do this too,...

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...

I recently had the opportunity to see Noh being performed in London. Noh is one of the oldest continous forms of theatre in the world...

Foujita (1886-1968) is an artist I have come to appreciate more and more over time; not just his depiction of cats and nudes, but also...

In my studies of the Rinpa school in Japan and their techniques for my own paintings, I suddenly realised something that I didn't think...

I recently painted two cats on gold leaf with mineral pigment. In composition I wanted them to mirror each other like the Gods of Wind...

The influence of Hokusai on subsequent artists is truly huge; ranging from Degas, Van Gogh, Klimt, Picasso (he loved the octopus and...

There are two main artistic influences on my cat paintings: Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921) and Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968). In this post,...