The 48 Laws of Power 12 Apr 2013 | 07:59 pm

a Roman labyrinth pattern - a triple meander path to be exact - which means the path loops back on itself 3 times in each of the quadrants.

Why not be another artist? …or two? …or even 100! 12 Mar 2013 | 07:03 pm

What if the next time you visited your studio... you just reinvented yourself as another person (artist) and instead worked on their work?

The Road to Tobermory 12 Mar 2013 | 06:22 pm

In the second of the labyrinth series, I started with a large scale UK road atlas I've had for years. These days my iphone often gets us from A-B, so there's an element of nostalgia already in using s...

Into the Labyrinth… 12 Jan 2013 | 05:18 pm

According to Wikipedia this book has sold more than 25 million copies in 38 languages worldwide, and the audio version has sold 15 million copies (I listened to the audio whilst laying down the labyri...

Happy 100th Birthday Agnes Martin! 12 Apr 2012 | 09:35 pm

Happy 100th Birthday Agnes Martin! 12 Apr 2012 | 02:35 pm

I just returned from a real celebration. I went all the way back to Taos in New Mexico, and gave a talk at the Harwood Museum (eek! but it went great!) about meeting Agnes Martin in 1995 and just how ...

Happy Birthday Agnes Martin 23 Mar 2011 | 12:17 am

Happy Birthday Agnes Martin 22 Mar 2011 | 05:17 pm

Agnes Martin Interview (20:00 version, 1997) from Chuck Smith on Vimeo. Today is Agnes Martin’s birthday. She would have been 99 this year! And what a great excuse to connect back with my own site. I’...

Brave New World 18 Jan 2011 | 12:44 pm

Brave New World 18 Jan 2011 | 04:44 am

Lots has happened since I last posted anything, which I'll write about as the weeks unfold, but one of the most exciting ones has to be that I now have a studio space - with the ASC in South London- w...