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What Can Art Do?Arrival on the Island of Lesbos, summer 2016. Oil on board 45 x60 cmn

What Can Art Do?

I’m British, but never thought too patriotically about that knowing that my father’s ancestors invaded from Normandy in 1066. My mother arrived more recently, in 1938. She was German and did not approve of her government. She escaped in a hurry and was welcomed in England with an immediate offer of British citizenship. My childhood home was continually populated by folk from all over the world. ‘My country right or wrong’ never made sense to me, an internationalist.

Posted on: 8 February 2017