After fiesta siesta

In the winter when the sun is low in the sky, it streams through my windows and rakes across the room.

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I once lived in a loft building, the floor plan was L-shaped. My floor was split with one other person and one of the consequences of the way we had divided the floor was that my neighbour’s bathroom window was at right angles to my living room; this meant there were occasions when I had […]

Fast lane

A collector was in my studio looking at paintings when he said to me: “I hope you won’t be offended but I think some of your paintings would make great jigsaw puzzles.” I wasn’t offended, my love for Brueghel came as a child, doing puzzles of his paintings. It me thinking about what images of […]

Love the day

A successful man once told me that he would prefer to be lucky than clever. I had the luck when I arrived in NYC to have as my neighbor a man who became my friend. He had an understanding and passion for American art and through his eyes this European painter saw American painting and […]