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why is there a black cat in every painting? The answer begins long before my own work. It belongs to a much older story about artists, craft, identity, and the quiet marks makers leave behind. For thousands of years, craftspeople and artisans have added maker’s marks to their finished work. These marks might be simple, complex, decorative, practical, obvious, or almost invisible. They help identify who made a piece, where it came from, and sometimes how it was made.

The hardest part of returning to painting is not always the painting itself. Sometimes it is getting back into the quiet routine around it: clearing the table, choosing the subject, mixing the first wash, and trusting that your hand still remembers what to do. After a break, that first session can feel oddly loaded. You want the work to feel fresh, but you also want to prove to yourself that the rhythm has not gone completely missing. That was very much the mood behind my lat

For many football supporters, the 92 is a journey measured in train tickets, turnstiles, floodlights and away ends. It means watching a live association football match at the home stadium of every club in the top four professional tiers of English football My route was different. I completed the 92 with paintbrushes, sketching, composition and colour. Instead of ticking off each ground by attending a match there, I painted a “going to the match” stadium scene for every one

The art world is facing a growing challenge. As AI-generated art becomes more common, many artists and collectors worry about the loss of authenticity and the unique value of human-created works. Recently, a BBC article highlighted a backlash against AI in the arts sector and called for an internationally recognized symbol to clearly mark whether a piece of art is human-made or computer-generated. This idea resonates deeply with me. I have already designed my own "No to AI Ge