beginning is always the hardest; art is about sharing ... extraordinary things (1 January 2016)

so much so, I didn't start on 1 January

A Pepys Show (Pepys paper dolls)

In 1660, however, Samuel Pepys began his diary.


While David Hockney received an Order of Merit in
2012.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, 

because of course art is about sharing. 

You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

- David Hockney

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things. 

- David Hockney