I'm delighted to have this artwork on the RSA walls at the start of this year. One of my personal favourites from the past couple of years. Tap the poster to visit the SSA website. I don't yet have any photos of the framed piece, but I can tell you that an excellent job has been done by Detail Framing Studio, Edinburgh. Image size: 73 x 50 cm Framed size: 85 x 62 x 3 cm (approx) 2024 Available from the exhibition The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition showcases a

I love this Taschen volume. I see in these pages evidence that even when partly instructional or diagrammatic, to approach the opus...

...in a world that is more often than not associated with a harsh and destructive bottom line." It's scary stuff! The Soul cares not for constraints, it has in its sights that which seeks to find expression through you, and demands the call is answered as best you can. Yet, the human being is caught between an insistence on creative freedom, and the Saturnian principles of limitation, whether they be personal, cultural, material. David Whyte describes the inner fire of creati

"If explanation is the self-cure for curiosity, we have a lot of explaining to stop doing; if desire is the refuge from wide-angled attention, we have a lot of wanting to relinquish." Attention is something we give and receive, and is in turns needed, wanted, and feared in its various forms. In psychotherapy we notice that a symptom, a state of mind, is something that claims our attention in a particular way, and as Adam Phillips suggests, psychoanalysis (and by extension I a