An old silent pond Metal Print

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Haiku - for those who don't know already - is a traditional form of Japanese poetry which is very short and which ideally consists of three lines of 5,7 and 5 syllables. Matsuo Basho was a master of the art and lived in the seventeenth.century,

I was born a Manxman - a native of the Isle of Man in the centre of the British Isles - and my heritage from there sometimes brings a Celtic element to my work. However, another side of my personality has often been expressed in my acrylic painting and photography in a more extraverted, Mediterranean way. This has no doubt been influenced by the fact that I have travelled through Europe and elsewhere in the past, but I have come to look for inspiration nearer to my home in recent years in a beautiful part of the north of England. My Christian faith underlies what I do in art as in the rest of my life. I am a retired clinical psychologist and am married with children and grandchildren. I have no formal artistic qualifications but am...