The Darkest Black. Goya's Black Paintings are like scraping at the underbelly of a genius's imagination. Universally famous, and rightly...

THE ART GENE Well, it is Caravaggio or not? The debate continues.... Spain’s Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio, 'Ecco...

Faking it. FORGERY - PART ONE It's not new, Michelangelo was adept at fakery when he sculpted a putti and then aged it (apparently with...

The Eccentrics Of course everyone expects artists to be eccentric, it comes with the instruction manual, but there are some...

SEEING RED Apparently the reason for some paintings reaching higher prices is ‘often alarmingly simplistic’ i.e. the picture has red in...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (5 April 1526 – 11 July 1593) was a successful court painter charged with recording the likenesses of three Holy...

The Death Toll Many artists met their deaths with the same violent intensity they brought to their lives, and a surprising number died in...

First Careers of the Great Artists For some art is a vocation, for others perhaps not so much. It's fascinating to know what jobs or...

Why write thrillers set in the art world? The first reaction to that question – one that people ask me constantly – is why not? In the...

Love - when is it ever simple? Leonardo da Vince, always a connoisseur of beauty, was infatuated by Salai, his lover and assistant....

Put downs are irresistible, especially those of the greats. It's like watching the gods of Olympus scrapping like toddlers over pieces of...

We've all got one, an inbuilt fascination with the arts; painting/music/literature. It's inside us, and just needs a little teasing to be...

Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post! Here you will find an array of updates from myself on my work, my art takes and...