Who was the most technically adventurous artist of the 20th century? The obvious answer would be Picasso but a more accurate one would be Henry Moore. While both men fixated on the human body and both examined it in every medium, for sheer varie

High summer casts a dusty light over the city. I worked on the Mall on a couple of Sunday afternoons. I loved painting the flags — two-dimensional objects turned into three by the way they hung in folds. They were transferred ba

A year ago I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. I attribute my recovery and survival, in part at least, to a grim determination not to predecease my father Raymond Carr. He is 90 and I suspect that, likewise,

"Vain man, vision of a moment made;

Dream of a dream, shadow of a shade"

Looking intensively outside yourself, investigating with an inquiring mind and asking questions about t