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As I flew from London to Moscow, then Moscow to Tokyo, people in Wuhan were dying.  The new Coronavirus was spreading, and the pandemic was unimaginable to me. Everywhere people were wearing masks, unsure of how to avoid the threat. The next leg of my unprecedented journey was New Zealand. My journey to New Zealand was punctuated with concerns surrounding the virus, it is a difficult...

Glass Worlds: a series of imploded glass and concrete spheres. As the pandemic extended, my thoughts were taken over by this unprecedented situation, with fear for the safety of my loved ones and frustration at the environmental disasters this planet endures. My automatic reaction to this is to express it with glass. In my opinion, disrespect towards the current ecosystem has led to...

Room dividers with Japanese Motifs in the Tokyo National Museum, Japan. Tokyo National Museum, Japan, is unlike any museum I have ever visited. It is enormous, organised and has lots of space. It actually succeeds in organising millennia of artefacts and sculptures into a semblance of order. One gallery begins by explaining: “Japan has three main traditions of sculpture, Buddhist...

TeamLabs Japan Interactive wave room in TeamLab Borderless, Tokyo Following the intoxicating, sublime serenity, and stimulation of the Nezu Museum and Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, we went to Team Borderless. This is a creative digital mecca, a collaboration of minds expressed in a wealth of innovative, stimulating visual feast. It is fully immersive, saturating, fabulous and completely...

Corridor in the Nezu Museum, Tokyo. The Nezu Museum is a museum and art gallery in Japan with an ancient garden. This was the first Japanese Garden I have visited and was completely seduced. So many careful details: trees are wrapped with matted rushes, like a tree bracelet. There is no grass! Instead, there is bare earth or moss or stones, raked gravel The planting was meticulous, water...

Koi, Temples and Aquaponics Recently I returned from a trip to Japan and New Zealand. It was the sort of trip that changes you, and I am now creating a new body of work inspired by the experience. My daughter and I travelled out together from London to Tokyo via Moscow. I was excited and curious to go to a city I had heard so much about but never visited before. The first place we...