Ben Cowan's regular blog to unzip the fog - Art That Makes You Think

We all love the story of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl stories always create a wonderous world, that if we could all live in, then everything would be...

Marketing is the greatest story ever told. Guaranteed to make you buy shit you don’t need with money you don’t have. When you wake up and feel dissatisfied with life...

More Joy! A sentiment that I have drawn on for decades, is that we don’t need a near-death experience, to live every day as if it were our last. When...

Welcome to Ben Cowan's blog - Private view invitation to my exhibition this weekend in Stratford, new collections, why it's hard to create a tribe and free gin!

This is a strapline used on Medecins Sans Frontières t-shirts for fundraising in the UK. During my numerous missions with MSF in the field, we also had to wear heavily branded MSF...

We're led to believe that there's a hierarchy in art. You know, fine art - that's the best; mass-produced art - that's no better than advertising; and digital art –...