In retrospect, I should have foreseen the circumstance under which Mother would tell me about her relationship with father. She was not the type to rant in tears—no. Tears were a loss of restraint to her usually “gathered” self so she would be working as hard as she could to pull herself together again. She ...

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, ...