Norman Perryman: A Life Painting Music

  The loss of a dear friend On Sunday 28th September 2025 I lost a dear friend: the artist Charles Hardaker. I was sixteen in 1949 and Charl...

Songs of changing colours In these times of many-coloured conflict, I felt the need to share with you the joys of multi-coloured floating wa...

The Passing of Time  Each year, as we gaze on the beauty of falling cherry-blossoms (a ritual in Japan), we are intensely aware that, when t...

  The joys of intelligent listening On January 18th 2018, a devastating storm brought the whole of the Netherlands to a standstill. I happen...

  The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman & John Adams How can any artist find a way to visualise the indescribable tragedies of the present w...