What I especially like about the concept of The Harrowing of Hell is that Jesus needs to be busy busy. He can’t actually be dead during those three days. He has to rescue all those poor souls in hell since … Read More
She was a Catholic and the first person I knew with a florescent Virgin Mary statue; maybe there’s something in this Catholicism, I thought, if you need a green glow to help you through the night. We loved the Monkees … Read More
Did you ever do something good as a child only to be told stuff like “you’ll get your reward in Heaven”? No thanks, especially if a nun is on reward duty; it will be slim pickings for the protestants … Read More
In 2021 I was asked to contribute to an exhibition in Hereford. I researched the year 1971 for the painting ‘The anchorhold 1971’ I used a version of a toy theatre and painted anchorholds in the theatre boxes, women kept … Read More
My first imaginary friend was a bluebird, directly lifted from a favourite storybook, with the power of speech and flight, much needed in large families. Another was a baby although I had a baby sister. This imaginary one was … Read More
‘At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea, The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins.’ On the 7th April I’ll … Read More
NICK’S GIFT Review by Paul Green Becky Nuttall’s first collection is a delight to read. The poems range from vivid but unsentimental epiphanies of a sixties childhood to powerful evocations of a seventies adolescence in all its … Read More
I inherited my father’s art school portfollio, letters written to his closest friend, poems, lists and journals. I have the lovely poems he wrote for me, his funny postcards and random letters. I have disposed of … Read More
“Momento mori – love, I love’
Conceptualism was the only theory available at my art school in 1973. Found objects, post modern irony and an ability to not stick around too long with an idea were highly marked. A desire to paint like Turner was … Read More
The White Horses of Tarquinia In 1966 we spent a summer in Italy; one quest was to find the white horses of Tarquinia. It became a bit of a mission. I have now found out they were … Read More
