cgi of an urgent care centre for a site in Cardigan designed with BAM construction in 2016 There is a huge amount of creative, artistic and design output that is published online, and many creatives comment that AI ‘bots’ are scraping their work to enable an image that leans heavily on their work to be created; i.e. the AI platform uses their work ignoring possible copyright infringement. My experience experimenting with AI to create illustrations for a series of books has l

An article this morning on radio 4 entitled ‘Three ages of Child’ (click link to hear; https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002krl7 ) raised a few unpalatable truths about decisions that our elected politicians have made over the last two decades and the development potential of our children. 1.       Since austerity measures were imposed in 2008 the average height of a child has reduced and an adolescent is now, on aerage, 7cm shorter than a child born in the Netherlands. 2.  

A question I have often asked about our royal family and its legacy has become more relevant since the coronation of King Charles III. AI generated image of poundbury based on fair use of photo from Domus estate agents website and fair use accreditation to Westminster_Hall_interior By Tristan Surtel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org .jp g We are all used to the argument that the royal family represent the heritage of Great Britain and provide a focus for touris

When I heard of a new installation at the Royal West of England Academy by Luke Jerram, I was intrigued by what this "multidisciplinary...

Cover of my copy of Leon Krier: Drawings, a mongrapgh by Maurice Culot published in January1981 just as I started my architectural career...

(see recipe for spam fritters below) While everyone in Great Britain was celebrating VE day, I was considering the dichotomy of...

Image for a book illustration project created using FY studio and reverse image searched to show that this does not breach copyright but...

Thank you to all those that came to the evening view of my solo show in The Crypt and thank you to all those working at St Michaels on...

When I first started painting I found that years of pent-up creativity needed to be released; my paintings were enthusiastic, impulsive and rapid and while the process gave me pleasure, I realised that they needed to have elements that were tightly controlled if they were to be taken seriously. In a discussion at an Artists Network South West meeting in Spike Island, it was suggested that one can’t be considered a painter in anything less than 5 years! However, what really su

It was over a cup of coffee that a friend, who lives and works in Bristol and Amsterdam, confessed that to help manage the impact of...

poster for the Warner Brothers film: Death in Venice 1971. I have to admit to a guilty pleasure; that of enjoying Melvin Braggs...

It is astonishing that exactly thirty years ago Rage Against the Machine were #1 in track play lists for “Killing in the name” and...

image above:my commentary on being monitored, "Just F.ck Off ", created 2021. The disappearance of Nicola Bulley, apart from being a tragic matter for her family, raises huge issues about the level of surveillance we are comfortable living with. The police dialogue focussing on the gaps in CCTV coverage of her countryside walk raises the issue of how normalised we are to police surveillance. We no longer question the need for CCTV but the questions we should be asking are:

What is Sunak hoping to achieve? As a student I always found that the process of having to state your attainment goals at the start of a...

So, My first exhibition of the year is the travelling show of Rosemary Meyers works entitled Ways of attaching, shown in the Swiss...

Rather like christmas shopping I like to do gallery visits in short sharp bursts and in December I had at least four to go to : The RWA...

After my show in April, I decided to take a breather and regroup. Unfortunately, I took too long and found myself not having started...

Two things happened this week; Pierre Soulages, known for his black abstract paintings, died aged 102, and, it was discovered that a...

Apparently, according to recent ONS data, the UK economy shrank unexpectedly by 0.3% in August. Its said to be due to a 'range of...

After many years of going to the same dentist, today was the first that they discovered that I don’t use a fluoride toothpaste and...