Robert Motherwell’s history is as fascinating as his art, and indeed the two often interlink. There is a Scottish connection, with his father’s name being Robert Burns Motherwell and indeed Robert Motherwell, along with his father and sister, actually visited the town of Motherwell in Lanarkshire in Scotland at the end of a European tour […]
Back at one of my favourite galleries, both for the space, with its soaring industrial brick walls rising up to the rooflight (it was formerly a garage) and for the selection of artists in its exhibitions. The Bernard Jacobson Gallery’s recent exhibition facing out towards the Christmas windows of Fortnum and Mason was of prints […]
Celebrating 50 years as a sculptor and artist, Bruce McLean is perhaps, these days, also unusual in that he has had a relationship with the Bernard Jacobson gallery since his first one-man exhibition there in 1984. The gallery is celebrating his long career with a programme of exhibitions and events, with McLean’s playful, theatrical and […]
Colourful shapes and unusual materials draw the attention of passers-by as they negotiate the roadworks in Duke Street outside the Queen’s grocer, Fortnum and Mason. Two works from the 2000′s – ‘Pack To Avoid the Threat of Nothingness’ and ‘Plenipotentiary’ stand like sentinels on either side of the stone staircase which leads down to 60 […]
Founded in 1969 and, until recently, housed in Cork Street, Mayfair, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is now in Duke Street, opposite Fortnum and Mason. The new gallery, designed by Nick Gowing architects, occupies the former underground car park of the historic French Railways House. The conversion uses a simple palette of materials and cleverly leaves some […]
I have to admit that the Bernard Jacobson Gallery opposite Fortnum & Masons remains one of my favourite new galleries in London. While the building itself is quietly modernist, with ground floor rents in London at a premium, the gallery has just enough fully glazed double height frontage to provide a taster for its exhibitions providing […]
Three exhibitions among the fine art galleries of Cork Street in Mayfair, London; three different artists or groups of artists; three contrasting use of deconstructed and reconstructed geometry. The British Artist Mark Vaux’s aptly-named exhibition “New Ovals” at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery has a number of his recent works focused on large ovoid paintings. Vaux […]
"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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