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The French have a word for when you are in an unfamiliar place, feeling disoriented and far from home. Dépaysé encpasulates nicely the idea of not just being out of your own pays or country, but also a bit discombobulated. I thought coming to Hong Kong would make me feel

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“What’s your favourite colour?” [Pink Roses (1881), Henri Fantin-Latour] I used to dread having to answer this when my primary school friends and I were…

Mar 12

I write this sitting not in a kitchen sink, but in a studio. My studio. For a few weeks at least. It’s all very exciting, and it comes about because I…

Mar 5

I had a friend at university whose family were tenants on a dairy farm in Cheshire. When I went visit there were lots of large cows, three sons, a…

Feb 26

[Snowdrops (c1935), woodcut by Mabel Royds] A short and sweet post this week on a short and sweet subject: snowdrops. I am fond of many words which end…

Feb 19

I was never a punk/mod/rocker/Paul Weller fan (don’t pretend you’re surprised), but The Jam’s Going Underground is one of my anthems. I like the the…

Feb 12

I have been lucky enough to have a room of my own for much of my life, but I have never had a studio of my own. Not unless you include the bedroom I had…

Feb 5

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