Poems can express our feelings and help us reorganise them. I am in awe of poets who manage to allow me to think differently about a situation with a few well-chosen lines. This poem by Mark Strand takes us into those feelings we often have in winter, rearranges them and can help us utter a…

Continuing my thoughts on the works of the Italian renaissance artist, Piero della Francesca brings me today to a small painting displayed in the tiny Tuscan village of Monterci ,close to the artist’s home of Sansepocro  For many years the fresco painting, Madonna del Parto was to be viewed in the small chapel of the…

The Italian renaissance artist, Piero della Francesca, was a civic councillor in Sansepolcro, Tuscany. His first commission for the town as an artist was his Baptism of Christ, which has found a home in the National Gallery, London. This is one of my all, time favourite paintings. It shows Christ being baptised by John with…

I find reflecting on various pieces of art to be very therapeutic and spiritual. I find the works of Italian Renaissance master, Piero de Francesca especially so. The Civic art gallery in the quiet Tiber valley town of Sansepolcro is home to one of my favourites. You can pay to enter the gallery but there…