Good session in the studio at El Masnou on Saturday. El Masnou is a quiet seaside town north of Barcelona, dissected by the train line and the 'nacional' - busy two-lane highway that runs along the coast - both of which pass right in front of the beach. But away from them you find peaceful narrow streets of little 2-storey fishermen's houses with ( Read more... )

Some things are not so banal as they look, and others take a long time to understand ( Read more... )

June. It's hot now, after the spring hesitation between searing sunshine and cool restless air, with the sun gaining ground steadily every day ( Read more... )

Hi anyone reading this..............
there's a chance I may have to be in London for work purposes for four weeks from August to Sept. The only way i can do this is if I can find some cheap or free accommodation for that period. Anyone know anyone who can help me out?

Spring's officially with us, balmy sunshine from a hazy sky, this morning the mountains were nearly all swallowed in the milky blue haze, except for St Antón, the ex-volcano whose shoulders protect the functional ochre blocks of the Ciudad Cooperativa; allotments and market gardens by the train line awash with blossom: peach, apple, cherry trees: ( Read more... )

This week I've really enjoyed being with Aidan; one night he got all inspired and drew my portrait while I was talking with Rob Nantes on the phone about his crazy scheme to give up his job at the British Council in Madrid and bury himself in his native Bridport: 'Steve!! Don't move your head!!' - a fanatical gleam in his blue eyes and his tongue ( Read more... )

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