Out in the Somerset countryside, with the fields turning yellow in the heatwave of the 2018 summer, there is something strange in the landscape floating behind a sea of plants which move slowly in the wind, with what could be circular yellow footsteps leading to it at the top of the hill. Is it something […]
It’s January and the start of the 2017 art cycle with the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Now in its 29th year, the Fair presents galleries showing work from modern artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi (“Richard Rogers as Newton”) and Alexander Calder (“The Yellow Shock Absorber”) plus artists such as Picasso and Joan […]
Swirling, twisting, dancing, rising and falling, trying to escape but held captive by some unseen force, creating continually-changing lines against the whiteness of the walls. Sitting quietly, the animal from another world is watching, just waiting for when, like dozens of spring coils, it can leap into the air and capture the twisting dancing shape […]
Alexander Calder’s colourful vibrant work has been on display in several cities over the summer. In London and New York, the Gagosian Gallery had a show of Calder’s gouache paintings, which provided a contrast to the kinetic and mobile sculptures for which he is best known and which are currently on display in a major […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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