“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“Unabashedly Raphael adopts the pose, compositional framework and and spatial organisation of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa…” Christof Thoenes Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo have a lot in common. All were master artists, all lived in the same period, all lived in Rome, all shared an intense rivalry, and now all have had blockbuster exhibitions at the Met… Read more

“Creativity takes courage…” Henri Matisse Cancer of the duodenum is rare, and pretty nasty. It might be an adenocarcinoma, a neuroendocrine tumour (NET), a gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST), a lymphoma, or even a metastatic tumour from somewhere else (melanoma being the most common). The usual surgical therapy has been a pancreatico-duodenectomy, a so called Whipples… Read more