Klimt painted two versions of the bloody biblical story of the slaying of Holofernes by the Jewish patriot Judith, the second he painted after his visit to Ravenna where the Byzantine gold mosaics had a profound affect on his technique. In both versions Judith holds the decapitated head...
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is one of those paintings that is immediately familiar even to those who know little or nothing of art. For this reason it was chosen to launch the series “Le Belle nell’Arte” in an Italian regional newspaper based in Rimini. The image was so instantly...
Dragon was prompted by Pauline's wonderful tattoo of a Japanese dragon. Personally I'm not all that keen on tattooing but in this case I felt I'd met someone who had a work of art on her back. This image was realised shortly after the Japanese earthquake and the nuclear disaster that...
This picture was just done for fun one summer's evening on the roof of our home in Orvieto. I had met the two friends just that morning. German students from Weimar, they were travelling round Italy on a camping holiday. Lyz and Julie stepped out of their old 90s car and into my...
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was the beginning of the end for the White Goddess. Amongst animals only man is conscious of his place in the world, only man realises that time passes, that he is mortal. As the word took over, as Adam delved and Eve span, the superior power of...
Before the advent of monotheistic religions peoples of antiquity held that gods resided in places and that their voices holding eternal truths could be heard if you only listened - what the Romans referred to as Genius Loci. In Europe this belief persisted in country districts until...
I have been working on a new photo for the "Belle" series. The models were Monica and Samuel from Lugano, Switzerland who had seen a documentary about "Belle" on Swiss TV. They wished to do a picture together so I suggested the gruesome story of Diana and Actaeon. Why was Diana so...
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