
38 Minutes Ago
This is Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in America, announcing the death of President Kennedy on a CBS bulletin at 13.38, Central...

JFK and the Blowhard President
On 26 October 2017, the previously classified files relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy were due to be released to the...

The Hard Little Professional
Most people remember exactly where they were when they heard that JFK had been assassinated in 1963 or when passenger airliners hit The...

Red Roses For Me
Meet Jacqueline Bouvier who became Mrs. Jackie Kennedy when she married JFK in 1953. It is now 54 years since that day in Texas when her...

In Flanders' Fields
The photograph this painting is based on was taken exactly 100 years ago at the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), in West Flanders,...

The pool, by the moist place in the hollow
Behold Linlithgow Palace and the church of St Michael on the banks of Linlithgow Loch. I have now re-worked this painting three times to...

Mort au Combat
Meet Véronique Robert, Franco-Swiss journalist, mortally wounded in Mosul, Iraq on 19 June 2017 and who died in a Paris hospital 5 days...

The Public Eye
I’ve just watched the documentary “Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy” and feel a bit stunned by the behaviour of the press in the...

Doctor, who cares she is a woman?
When I started watching Star Trek Voyager for the first time, on British TV, I remember feeling really excited about the program. The...

Wimbledon....well never mind!
I painted Andy and Johanna in the hope that this would be our year but it just wasn't to be. Poor Andy had a dodgy hip and Johanna met...