Escape to myself

Travelling to reconnect

Just an older gay guy having a late life crisis … travelling and looking at the world and enjoying serendipity and trying to understand myself a little more. Trying to find kindness through random acts

  • Catalyst

    2022 has been a strange year; my life pivoted in July when I hit an age I never imagined I could be; 70! Then I encountered a much younger man and became madly infatuated with him. He was beautiful, sensitive and so open emotionally. At 70 I never expected such an intense sexual relationship. Older…

    Catalyst

  • Seurat at the Courtauld

    Seurat has always been a love of mine. Not because of his pointillism though his technique is wonderful but for his landscapes and his compositions of people in seeming isolation amidst crowds and the prism through which he views the disjointed qualities of modernity: La Grande Jatte, Bathers at Asnieres, Parade and many others. His…

  • Tracey Emin: Tate Modern

    This was a wonderful exhibition. I’ve always admired her work but I’ve never really engaged with a deeper and more expansive body of her art. This show certainly gave me the opportunity to explore and take a longer considered look. While I have always loved the fluency of her drawing today I was brought up…

  • Samurai Exhibition at British Museum

    This was an excellent exhibition exploring Samurai culture from the 12th century to its legacy today. including armour, ceramics, prints and textiles it displayed some gorgeous lacquer work and beautiful clothes. The Edo period was well represented and the period leading from the proscription of Samurai in the 1860s, its development in the 1930s and…

  • Samurai Exhibition at British Museum

  • Lee Miller at Tate Britain