Constant change breathes life into the landscape here in Cornwall in the UK and all kinds of weather conditions have inspired the paintings and drawings in this collection. There have been days that are cold, breezy and bright as the winter solstice is approaching and a moment comes when up in the dramatic cloud canopy it's still afternoon whilst down here the evening is already setting in. On other wintry days the clouds hang low and the land is waterlogged. It's a dark time that breeds a longing for spring, yet as house lights appear a warm inwardness begins to steal over me.

As the year turns, a stormy energy moves inland. Cloud masses pile up. Field patterns, once highlighted by a dusting of snow, develop the corduroy of cultivation and watery tracks in the mud catch the sky.

There comes a time at last when everything is bathed in the calm and ambient light of a maritime summer. People now are busy preparing and enjoying our summer festivals and one evening...

Miles Davis once said, "Don't play what's there, play what isn't there," a homage to his ever-unique presence in the world of jazz,and likely music in general. It may also help in beginning to understand TheDiscordant Plot, a recent project of Italian-born photographer and storyteller Giovanni Capriotti.

It is a series of enchanting images carrying his clean blend of the mundane and the absurd. Blended, however, in a manner that at first glance is dreamy, an hallucinatory quality to them, but on further reflection begins to evoke a sense of disquiet, a haunting aftertaste that I am almost reluctant to explore further for fear of discovering the cause, what isn't there.

And that is what these fairy tale images are about - capturing what isn't there, that which we don't always see or think about or feel, hear,smell. But it is there within us all the time.

Buddhism teaches that nothing that happens within our life, or our lives, is lost or forgotten. No matter...

I would be the first to admit that everyone's taste in art is different. That said, there are many artists -- alive and dead -- who command significant following. The French Impressionists remain hugely popular in part because their subject matter was generally non confrontational and concentrated on the prismatic make-up of light through the use of primary colours mixed on the canvas. Their popularity in the twenty-first century is measured in gallery attendances and prices paid for their better-known artworks.

When the Impressionists were hard at work honing their new-found skills, their economic situation was generally dire, basically because they needed to create a market very different from that which prevailed at the time for serious works of art. Clearly, the constant rejection of their creativity must have been debilitating for years on end. I can only imagine how their wives and families must have pleaded with them to "get a real job".

I too frequently...

Forthcoming show at Blackheath Gallery, Tranquil vale, London
November 5th 2011 - January 7th 2011