A few photos which I took in Calcutta / Kolkata in October: The Taj Bengal hotel breakfast (the most attractive part, at least) ...

Going through old things I'd written, getting ready for a visit to Kolkata, I found this forgotten scrap: The City of Contradiction...

Some instagram photos, taken in the last couple of months: frangipani  a water lorry's hubcap  the door of a small, por...

I took a high dive from a pair of grass-green platform shoes once in Boston Garden, in the Spring. The weather was wonderful, sunny and war...

Maharaj Kathak. Stencil and collage.

The last day of the year. In the morning I walked in the hotel gardens. The air was cool, still, damp from rain in the night, almost no one ...

Some inanimate objects seem full of character, to have a kind of machine-consciousness. I felt like that about this small road roller, which...

I 'saw' the cover of this book in my mind's eye as I was walking up on the flat roof of our house one evening: 5-paise coins in ...

Drawing faces from the newspaper:

The inner life of things, scrapbooking division. These horses are pensive, but ready to do their duty.

I made this picture of my mother from a photograph taken before her marriage, in 1948: I used an old book page, with very soft paper. I h...

I've inaugurated the watercolour book which I showed off in the post just before this one.  I wanted to paint something without a plan, ...

Someone gave me a pretty wedding invitation; the paisley motif on the front inspired me to make a little watercolour book: Coptic binding...

I've been filling up my new sketchbook (see the post below this). The papers are of different sizes and varieties, which is more interes...

I felt the urge to bind a book. I wanted it to be fun, and to allow mistakes. I collected an assortment of papers, in different sizes...