“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

“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

“The pen is the lever by which we move e the world…” Thomas Talmage Melissa always seeks breathtaking precision in her art. My style is loose and semi abstract. Whilst I throw ink and paint around with the biggest nib or brush I can pick up, she is working with the sharpest pencils or smallest… Read more