“Sine Cerere te Baccho friget Venus.” (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes) – “Eunuchus”, Terence (c.195/185- c.159 B.C.) This Latin … More
Category: Wine and art
Pleasure: From Water to Wine
We all seem to instinctively know what pleasure is. No philosopher, psychologist or guru needs to explain it to us, … More
Designing a Book Cover in 3 Acts. Act 3: Letting Go
I’ve had the great pleasure of designing the cover art for Brian Metters’ new book: “It’s Not About The Wine! … More
Designing a Book Cover in 3 Acts. Act 2: Drafting
I’ve had the great pleasure of designing the cover art for Brian Metters’ new book: “It’s Not About The Wine! … More
Designing a Book Cover in 3 Acts. Act 1: Brainstorming
I’ve had the great pleasure of designing the cover art for Brian Metters’ new book: “It’s Not About The Wine! … More
Blank Canvas
There it is, right in front of you: pristine and untouched. You have an idea in your head of what … More
Painting Pleasure, Drinking Design
Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le Déjeuner des Canotiers) affords one the rare pleasure of looking in on the … More
Assembly Required Part 2: Cubism, Mrs. Dalloway and Writing About Wine
What cubist painters did in transforming the way we look at things and think about paintings, Virginia Woolf did for … More
Assembly Required Part 1: Cubism, Mrs. Dalloway and writing about wine
The great advantage of a painting is that its expression is contained within the frame of a simultaneous whole. When … More
Caravaggio interprets Bacchus
“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography” -Federico Fellini Caravaggio, whose real name is believed to be … More
