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My book, The Lost Art of Silence – Reconnecting to the Power and Beauty of Quiet is going to be published by Shambhala in the US in December 2023 (distributed in the UK by Penguin/Random House) – over the next few months I’ll be publishing some enticing quotes …

Ages since I’ve posted … my exhibition back in November went very well … I went to New York soon after it finished, and was lucky to be there during that small window that opened before Omicrom hit! I managed to go to lots of exhibitions including the temporarily housed Frick Madison in what was…
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I am having an exhibition at the Tabernacle in Notting Hill from November 2nd-6th – it includes some of the many paintings and collages I did during lockdown. Painting (and living opposite Battersea Park) were two of the things that have kept me sane during the last 18 months.

Having recently been in conversation with Hisham Matar at Hatchards, I then wrote this piece for the Biographers’ Club website earlier this week: The Return is the account of Matar’s return to Libya in 2012 in search of his father who had been abducted from Egypt in 1990 by Qaddafi’s henchmen and sent to the…
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I’m just back from two weeks painting in Provence – a mixture of good conversation, delicious food and HARD  work! Every day we would be driven to a local site where we would spend the morning – over the two weeks we visited Murs, Joucas, Goult, Saturnin les Apt, Saignon, Viens and Simone la Rotunde,…
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I have had a painting selected by the Chelsea Art Society for an exhibition in Chelsea Town Hall. It is open from tomorrow Thursday June 13th – Saturday 15th (10am – 7pm), Sunday June 16th (10am-5pm) Monday June 17th (10am – 2pm). It is number 355!

After spending 6 nights in our mobile camp which had been run by Johnny & Tasha Ramsden of Royale Wilderness, we went back to Maun. Bill Burns (BotswanaTrek.com) had organised 2 nights for us at the famous Jack’s Camp. We left our heavy luggage in Maun and took a small plane there. We arrived to…
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Just back from my trip to the Okavango Delta in Botswana, organised by Bill Burns (http://www.botswanatrek.com)  and guided on the ground by Johnny Ramsden who runs a mobile-safari company with his wife Tasha. We were incredibly lucky to see so many animals close to – it almost seemed staged since each day we saw something different….
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Back from Aldeburgh where the exhibition went fairly well. It was busiest during the weekend since both the poetry festival and the documentary film festival were happening – except people did seem to be rushing from one event to another. The opening on Saturday was well attended – but only half a bottle of wine…
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Sitting here hoping that I’ve remembered everything to take to Aldeburgh. My hallway is full of paintings, cards, calendars, materials for hanging etc etc. My car will be laden … So much to think about … This time next week will be the last day of the exhibition – Aldeburgh Arts Gallery, 143 High Street, Aldeburgh IP15…
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