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Draw Winky

Jun 30, 2003 | Chronicles

Or: A brilliant CAREER in Wallpaper… Three things conspired the other day to take me unawares. (Well, four actually, the first being my general obliviousness…) The copy of National Geographic that I picked up in a used book store because it is the issue from the month...

Chatting with Mr. Ruskin

Jun 23, 2003 | Chronicles

Or How To Draw Attention… Oh would I love to be able to chat with John Ruskin. Ruskin wanted EVERYONE to draw. Not because he wished to turn the entire population of England into artists, to have factories filled with easels, and sketchpads on bankers’ knees, but in...

Stepping Right Off The Page

Jun 13, 2003 | Chronicles

STEPPING RIGHT OFF THE PAGE Or Where I’m Allowed One Wish… It seems like ages ago that the original of Gandalf the Grey was stolen from an exhibition. http://www.john-howe.com/forum/smf/index.php?topic=1905.0 I’ve often been asked if I could paint it again, but you...

Where I Have a Mystical Experience…

Jun 6, 2003 | Chronicles

Or: Adventures In The Aisles of Plenty Most people make their personal connections to the universe in the hinterlands of the sublime – the far plutonian shore, the precipitous precipice, the wind-swept wilderness, in those blessèd realms where you can feel small...