The big sister of CONTEXT, Art Miami is broader and more expansive with art from 20th century masters such as Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, Alexander Calder, Wildredo Lam and Keith Haring running through to the 21st century and, inevitably, some of the same cutting edge artists that appear in CONTEXT, but with a more spacious layout allowing […]
One of Fernardo Botero’s curvaceous women welcomes visitors to the classical Georgian building which is of course an illusion – a temporary façade erected every year in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea for the annual art and antique fair Masterpiece. If there is a colour that subtlety predominates here it is red: […]
The park is only a couple of stops on the Valporetto from St Mark’s or a pleasant stroll along the waterfront. It is a park of two halves; the gardens facing onto the water with their lawns, trees and sitting areas which are a pleasant contrast to the rush and bustle of the centre of […]
Having climbed up a staircase with papers flying up the walls, like playing cards from Alice in Wonderland, you open the door of the bedroom to find black birds flying round the room trying to escape. You try another room to find a large black hairy animal, which could be from another planet, waiting patiently […]
Folded aeroplanes, screws, nails, spoons, polyamide mesh, ceramic pots, old paintbrushes, old records and cassettes, basket balls and darts, plus the newest technologies of LED lighting and thin display screens: Art continues to break out of the traditional boundaries of paint, canvas and bronze sculpture. Galleries and artists from all around the world have been […]
Connecting art lovers with 120 emerging artists who can engage with and explain their art to visitors, the Other Art Fair is now in its 5th year. Over 700 applicants were whittled down to the final selection by a group of art experts resulting in wide fields of styles and media with a good international […]
The Affordable Art Fair, currently running in Hampstead, has a balanced representation from both British galleries and galleries from European and elsewhere bringing new emerging contemporary artists, working in a wide range of media and styles, to the London art scene. In this modern international age, gallery representations cross country boundaries and it is amusing, […]
"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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