Dear Fadérẹra,    Watching the tears fall from your eyes, the day I left two years ago, has been one of the most painful things in my life. Every time I attempt to write to you, the image of your teary eyes, and the disappointment that shone through, freezes the blood that flows to my ...

Modernist painter Peter Lanyon once commented that “It is impossible for me to make a painting which has no reference to the powerful environment in which I live”. Art is, more often than not, always reflective of the society it emerges from and its relevant context and while art can be made for art’s sake, ...