Agnès Varda

Just returned from seeing French filmmaker Agnès Varda present and talk about some of her films at the BFI. Feel inspired. Will write more soon...

[picture: Jane Birkin and Agnès Varda. One of the films screened tonight was Varda's 1988 ciné-portrait Jane B par Agnès V, which I first saw 4 years ago on video at the Cinémathèque in Paris. It was a treat to revisit it on the big screen.]

Como pictures

Some watercolours and drawings from my time by Lake Como in mid-April.

Springtime

February

Tribute to Eric Rohmer

The celebrated French film-maker Eric Rohmer died last month, aged 89. Here is a piece I wrote on my encounter with him 4 years ago, published in The Independent.

image: poster for Rohmer's film Pauline à la Plage (1983)

London buses, restaurant kitchen, Peak district in the cold, Amsterdam cafe in the sun

I have neglected my blog recently, so here are a few sketches from the past few months to get me started again. More posts to come...


Sketches from the immaculate kitchens of a large, elegant city restaurant, drawn on two different Wednesday nights last Oct/Nov.



Holborn on a busy autumn night



Drawings from a new year's holiday in the snowy Peak District, 09-10

Sunny Amsterdam cafe scene - painted last summer during a wonderful short break visiting my friend Milenna.