Phil McLoughlin
Durer's message: Sadder but wiser
The melancholic temperament has an enduring association with creative people. Although not an essential part of the creative process it...
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Phil McLoughlin
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
Keys to the sublime
Over 20 years ago the psychiatrist, Howard Cutler, published "the Art of Happiness”, based on conversations with the Dalai Lama. Their...
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Phil McLoughlin
- Jun 22, 2020
- 4 min
Expert by experience
Anyone who suggests that you should ‘get real’ is showing their age. What was ‘cool’ in the late 20th century now has a definite ‘retro’...
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Phil McLoughlin
- Jun 2, 2020
- 4 min
Meeting the Wizard Of Oz
Fifty years ago, under the influence of British pop art and the American ‘hard edge’, I felt that painting still had the power to change...
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Phil McLoughlin
- May 16, 2020
- 3 min
The art of the labouring classes
I have run almost every day for the past sixty years. I say almost for my career has been peppered with injuries, mostly from overuse. I...
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Phil McLoughlin
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min
Who you gonna believe..?
Some years ago the Spectator art critic, Andrew Lambirth, writing about David Hockney's Royal Academy show, noted that: “a great many...
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Phil McLoughlin
- May 4, 2020
- 2 min
Elvis the Piss-Artist
We were walking back to the gallery when Elvis headed off to take a pee on the edge of Richard Long’s Macduff circle. It seemed perfectly...
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Phil McLoughlin
- May 3, 2020
- 3 min
The meanings of things
A favourite theme of Alan Watts was how 'civilization' had led us to confuse symbol with reality. Our fascination with naming, describing...
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Phil McLoughlin
- May 2, 2020
- 4 min
The wonder of waiting.
My father was a furnace man and I spent my last two years at school working every holiday alongside him at the iron foundry – Easter,...
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