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Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Suggestive Highlights (Part 1 of 2)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is one of Birmingham's crowning glories. It stands proud and easily recognise-able on the skyline of this our wonderful city. I've been meaning to review this for some time and find myself with two many highlights. consequently this...
Proper Pesto – The Recipe
If this isn't the simplest recipe in the world, my name is not Chrystler Jennings the III. No I do jest, in all seriousness there are simpler recipes out there, such as not boiled egg. Pesto is among the simplest and least time consuming recipes I have ever made....
Pocket Hoodies – A Poem
This was one of my earlier works, which I had the pleasure of reading out at the Birmingham and Midlands Institute Play Reading Group. We were reading Arthur Miller that week, in case you were wondering. The featured image on this post is a wonderful pallet knife...
Boy Bitten by a Lizard, Caravaggio – Emotional Early Work by the Renaissance Master
Michaelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio is one of the greatest painters who has ever lived. My favourite piece by him is St Francis in Meditation, which I first saw at the Convento Dei Capuccini museum in Rome (pictured below). This piece was painted circa 1606, some 10...
The Junction Harborne – Stunning Sunday Lunch
Situated in the centre of Harborne High Street, The Junction is a pillar of the local community. The weekly quiz here is legend. But alas, the gang and I did not visit this public house to answer trivia questions, we came for Sunday lunch and were richly rewarded. The...
St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria – Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Astounding Ecclesiastical Work
While my posts are usually confined to art galleries rather than paintings alone, this piece so struck me that I felt the need to dedicate a post to it. I'm sure you don't mind, dear readers. Now, to the painting. At 26 square metres, it is difficult to picture the...