Category: Art and Photographic History
How Hogarth developed his painting and print narrative series from rough drawings. Examples of prints made after paintings by Mary Cassatt and Nikolai Astrup for different reasons.
Medium and Message: Paint to print
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Quick Cafe Sketches
Quick cafe sketches done between the rocket alerts.
Quick Cafe Sketches
The waitress in the Paris café was tolerant. My painting things were all over the table. I’d finished my meal some time ago. But she did not hurry me away. I was travelling by train, arriving many hours later in Geneva. Trains from Geneva to Lausanne were disrupted because Swiss football supporters had, I learned […]
Postcards from Paris and Switzerland, February 2026
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s discovery of X-rays transformed science and language alike. The term “X-ray,” born from the unknown, rapidly entered global English, bridging technical and everyday use. It expanded medical vocabulary and showed how scientific breakthroughs create lasting words, making invisible phenomena understandable and widely discussed across cultures and disciplines.
Birth of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) — The Scientist Who Gave English the Language of X-Rays
It moved from depicting the rural poor in the countryside, to scientists teaching, a major research meeting, technology in the workplace, and the rise of the clinic in hospital medicine.
Naturalists: Science and medicine
This time took my road warrior skills to go again to jolly England with the Le Shuttle train service (see post), and my Ford ; towing along my good boys and wonderful Rex! It was a very nice trip going into the countryside and seeing several towns of wonderul architecture and history, This one is a […]
The Museums of Oxford !!!
Take a journey across space and time with the work of Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė’s epic film installation at Tate St Ives which ends 12th April 2026. Inspired by West Cornwall’s landscapes and tides, you’ll step through towering screens arranged like ancient stones and explore moving images of underwater worlds and mythical creatures. I thought […]
Tate St Ives
It was that day again. Car service and MOT day when I have to ditch the car and find something to do as returning home is not possible unless I walk 2 miles uphill and 2 miles back down again on a road without pavements in some parts. Or get an expensive taxi. My old […]
as I was going to St Ives…
On a perfect day in Provence, I leaned against a wall and sketched a view of Le Thoronet. I loved this place because of its mathematical precision. As I sketched, I noticed that the tower is an isosceles triangle on top of a square. The windows are semicircles on top of rectangles. Some of the […]
Le Thoronet Abbey, Var, Provence, 83340 France
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