The Jewish Polish artist Jankel Adler (born 1895) fled from the south of France to Britain in 1943, where he settled first in Glasgow. His painting of the Mother and Child is said to reference Picasso’s Guernica and is poignant as he was uncertain of the fate of his partner and daughter until after the […]
Large areas of London have been destroyed, and burnt-out stonework and empty windows stand ruined against the sky with views to St Paul’s Cathedral which survived the Blitz in 1942 and represented the spirit of the British people during the darkest hours of the Second World War as recorded by photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky whose earlier photographs […]
The Ben Uri Gallery is celebrating it centenary with two exhibition, one at King’s College London in Somerset House; the other in its own gallery in north London. Originally founded as an art society in 1915 by Jewish émigrés in London’s Whitechapel area, it supported artists such as David Bomberg, Jacob Epstein, Jacob Kramer and […]
"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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