Syon House

"My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing, it's about making the best image iI can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can."

(Jim Dine)

"Drawing is a form of probing, and the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself."

(John Berger)

Florence

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself....

You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."

(Kahlil Gibran)

"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with white carpets is one of them."

(Erma Bombeck)

Richmond Park

"For the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."

(Martin Luther)

"I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them."

(James Russell Lowell)