[July 2026] Hello dear friend! This is the monthly newsletter/blog of artist and illustrator Nicola Fouché. If you missed last month's one — Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur and the Gifts of a Multicultural Society — you can catch up on it here. If a friend forwarded you my newsletter/blog, and you would like to subscribe (it's free!), you can do so at the bottom of this newsletter or on my website. If you enjoy my stories and ramblings, please consider sharing and subscribing. Your su

[May/June 2026 [Vol. 1] Hello dear friend! This is the monthly newsletter/blog of artist and illustrator Nicola Fouché. If you missed last month's one — The Time Keeper's Sphere (all about a new series of illustrative works that have been brewing in the studio) — you can catch up on it here. If a friend forwarded you my newsletter/blog, and you would like to subscribe (it's free!), you can do so at the bottom of this newsletter or on my website. If you enjoy my stories and

[April 2026] Detail shot of the illustration "The Time-Keeper's Sphere V". Dear friends, family and fellow art lovers, April was a hot, quiet month. Caught between boiling external temperatures, and a mind twisting and turning down the myriad, labyrinthine pathways of thought and (at times) pernicious thinking that so easily sprouts from solitude, isolation and stagnation, it was a month of ups and downs to say the least. I spent the time hiding away in my air-conditioned s