I was drawn to Hogarth by his images of Georgian life accidentally capturing the pots and crocks of his time.  Not merely passive chattels but active bit-part players in the dramas (often violent) they inhabit, my “series” started with Harlots, Rakes and Crashing China.  Soon I was hooked on Hogarth, finding more and more layers and an infinity of comment on his material world - and at a time when “Englishness” and modern “Britain” were coming into being. 

Further information on the Hogarth Group and the Hogarth Trust with both of which I am also heavily involved, will be available soon.

Harlots, Rakes and
 Crashing China

Milk, Medicine
 and Madness

Vice or Innocence?
  Hogarth’s Childhood

Eta Beta Py!
 Dining with Hogarth

Hogarth’s
 Haunts

A Peregrination
 of Kent, 1732

Off with his Head!
Crime and Punishment
 in Georgian England

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