Youth fascinates me. I suppose I am not that old yet, nevertheless I feel the youthful bliss seeping out of every pore. I have lost my sense of inquisitivity - the frivolity and vigour that I did not even realise I possessed nary a few years ago. The burdens of adulthood are [...]

I have a love/hate relationship with fashion. While I adore the the visual aspect of it, I cannot wholeheartedly agree with the widespread use of rail-thin models. I myself admit that having a very slender figure allows the clothes to move and breathe as the designer envisions, allowing for greater freedom in volume [...]

Red is the warmest of all colours. It is the colour most chosen by extroverts and one of the top picks of males. On the other hand, red symbolises temper, agitation and excitement. I am an introverted person, full of pessimism and doubt, unwilling to engage in confrontation. Red is not [...]

As much as I detested Biology in school, I have long since realised and acknowledged that nature continually offers up beautiful examples of form and colour. Cell structures, for example, informed me of the power scale and repetition hold when attempting to induce an sense of awe. These paintings, as abstract as they are, [...]

Vancouver is a beautiful. I often find myself basking in awe of the resplendence. There are few places I have seen in my lifetime that rival this truly portentous surroundings. And certainly, there is no other place to better experience the Vancouver lifestyle than standing in Stanley Park. The scintillating sea, [...]

I was first interested in perfectly discernible image - subjects whose form I can clearly recognise and name. It helped me relate to the artist. However, as of late, I am increasingly becoming more interested in abstract or semi-abstract forms. Although there is little in the way of expression that I can [...]

To create movement from paint and brush strokes is no easy feat. I have tried to no avail to perfect my skills in this regard. It is therefore not surprising that Austrian artist Herbert Brandl’s work floored me entirely. Majestic and visceral, they are rich with allusions to exuberant natural forces and [...]

Conflict involves opposing parties. When there is a war between two countries, the two are involved in a conflict. They will perhaps lure their allies into the conflict, and all sides will suffer casualties. We cry for the casualties and decry the war. Do we ever cry for the battlefield? [...]

“I’ve come to visit the painter Jorge Cardarelli in his spacious studio in the Chamberi neighbourhood of Madrid… I met Cadarelli about eleven or twelve years ago… Being born in 1971, he was very young then. He had just held, or was about to hold, his first individual exhibition in the nearby [...]

I have always wondered how the brothers Gabriel and Victor Gomez, or The Wolf Boys, with their hypertrichosis syndrome, got on with school. Equipped with neither consideration nor compassion, most children can be very cruel, with their sharp tongues and stinging words. How did the brothers’ react to the jeers of their peers? [...]