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Perfume Portrait #119 – Catherine Higham
Catherine Higham 50ml EDT Head – Fresh linen Heart – Geranium, Indian geranium, Rose geranium, Rose Body – Ylang ylang Description –...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 8, 20191 min read


Perfume Portrait #117 – Myfanwy Williams
Myfanwy Williams 50ml EDT Head – Cut grass, Cotton Heart – Spike lavender, Sea salt Body – Driftwood, Musk Description – Embracing all...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 6, 20191 min read


Perfume Portrait #107 – JanCarlo Caling
JanCarlo Caling 50ml EDT Head – Petitgrain, Lemon Heart – Cypress, Ginger Body – Sandalwood Description – A celebration of masculinity,...

Michael Borkowsky
Oct 27, 20191 min read


Introducing my Online Pop-Up Shop!
One of the perils of renting a studio is the ease of which you can accumulate all sorts of junk, half finished projects, old bits of...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 12, 20152 min read


Reflecting on my Latest Paint-Making Workshop
Last Wednesday I held the first of three paint making workshops to be held at The Bessemer II Gallery in Sheffield. As ever, the paint...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 14, 20141 min read


Artists Required for Thoughts Towards a Painting that Doesn’t Exist.
I am creating a piece of work that assesses the nature of painting, and speculates whether a painting needs to exist if we are able to...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 30, 20142 min read


News About My Upcoming Exhibition and Paint Making Workshop.
Over the last month I have been feverishly painting as many pictures of fruit as I can; applying paint directly to loaves of bread;...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 8, 20142 min read


Back With a Spice Rack
If you have been wondering where I have escaped to for the last month or so (and let’s face it, most of you have) I can joyously claim...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 3, 20132 min read


The Ease of Online Criticism
I have burst onto the Sheffield art scene in irresistible fashion and have penetrated collective consciousness the same way a frozen...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 9, 20133 min read


The Identity of Painting
Over the last week or so I have been concerned with the identity of painting. Specifically, I have been thinking about how the practice...

Michael Borkowsky
Jun 6, 20132 min read


The Constant Desire For Progression
I love to criticise and bitch. It fills part of my moral conscious probably technically reserved for, I don’t know, being able to...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 18, 20131 min read
The Tentative Steps Towards Selling Paint
I’ve made some lovely jars of paint. Now what? I have now been living in Sheffield for over two months and, frankly, I think I’m doing...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 29, 20132 min read
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