by ubique | Dec 15, 2025 | Blog
This is about Bushman paintings. And about friendship, personal history and private passions. It involves a lot of driving, some scrambling and late-night talking. I was brought up on stories about Bushmen and their paintings. My mother was raised on a farm in the...
by Peter Knight | Aug 12, 2025 | Blog, Uncategorized
This little porcelain dish is made to fit in the palm of an open hand. It’s part of a collection which is a secular offering in memory of Sophie D. who was a teacher, a great gardener and a wise, consoling friend. A trio of friends visited her husband Michael...
by Peter Knight | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog
By Sophie Balhetchet A few years ago, my brother found a small box and inside was a slotted rack holding a few Kodak colour transparencies: photographic images mounted between white cardboard intended for projection onto a screen. Just by holding them up to the light,...
by Peter Knight | Dec 4, 2024 | Blog
Moo Deng, the baby hippo internet sensation, and the girl who was gored by a rutting stag in a London deer park highlight our sometimes-baffling behaviour around wild animals. The Thai zoo where Moo Deng (bouncy pig), a pygmy hippopotamus, was born to great fanfare on...
by Peter Knight | Oct 6, 2024 | Blog
In springtime, a friend sits under a tree beside Pen Pond in London’s Richmond Park and through her binoculars plays what she calls sand martin bingo. This involves recording the birds’ darting flights in and out of the rows of nesting burrows in an artificial...
by Peter Knight | Jun 22, 2024 | Blog
These are porcelain paintings… perhaps better described as monoprint paintings on porcelain. But that’s not quite the right description since the image is painted directly onto a plaster batt – the heavy, chalky, highly-absorbent slabs used for wedging clay – from...
