“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

“Botany is the eldest daughter of medicine…” Johann Herman Bass Sturt’s Desert Pea is the State floral emblem of South Australia. Ironically I painted this in New South Wales, at the Australian Inland Botanical Garden, which has the largest known planting of the species. For the technically minded, Swainsona formosa is a prostrate annual or… Read more

“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind…” Martin Luther King The impressively named Ramon Castroviejo Briones was born in Spain during 1904. After completing his undergraduate medical education in Madrid he travelled to America, where he spent the rest of his professional career. Castroviejo became a renown pioneer in ophthalmology. In his early practice… Read more