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Diary of an Artist

6th August, 2025 – 11:39pm, studio, lights off Three days without touching a brush. I...

Diary of an Artist: Anonymous London

3rd August, 2025 – 4:12am, studio floor, cold tea beside me Haven’t slept. Again. I...

Flash Fiction Contest: When I was in St David’s by Anabella Drake

The rain fell sideways in St David’s, needling the cobbled streets and rattling umbrellas like...

More from the Journals of Basil Bromley, Victorian Artist and Mechanician

Entry the Fifth , 18th of May, 1873 I departed Redruth in a drizzle that...

A Riposte to Hedge Fund: Against the Aestheticization of Motor-Racing

by curator Archia Tanz The recent argument that motor-racing ought to be counted among the...

Who Crafted the ‘Roman Remains’ recently Discovered Beneath Boston?

In the aftermath of the harrowing revelation,that the ostensible Roman ruins discovered beneath the new...

Wine: The Medium of Choice for the Avant Garde?

The art world, that great machine of invention and secrecy, is alive at present with...

Great Artists: Marcellus Vire

The Salt of Memory: The Enduring Tear Art of Marcellus Vire In a century increasingly...

Letters: Disagreement on the Motor-racing as Fine Art Debate

Sir, I have, with mounting incredulity and indeed a kind of moral nausea, perused the...