I’m making a lot of literary art right now.

I met the author Shehan Karunatilaka, pictured here typing.

In lockdown, I drew a series of portraits online. One of the subjects was Olivia Colman.

The best-selling author and psychotherapist invited me to Paris, to make Surrealist art for a BBC documentary.

I drew a speccy version of myself into major artworks, just because.

This one is based on Millais.

I had a breakdown. I spent eight weeks in psychiatric hospital.
Making art was a big part of my recovery.

(Me, drawing on Hampstead Heath. Daily Telegraph)

But a teacher put me off. I became a writer.

For years, I was on staff at the Financial Times and The Sunday Times.

I often wrote about art, and artists.

I continue to write, and now make art too. This is one of my books.

Fifty pages of text, fifty pages of drawings.

Here are the drawings for one of them.

The Unbreakable Student.

This magnificent magnolia is on Platt’s Lane, near my home.

I particularly like urban landscapes.

This is Church Row, Hampstead, from the church. Click the picture for a closer look.

Art residencies inside independent publishing companies.

I spent a week at some of the finest gardens in England.

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