Moving from David Hockney at Annely Juda across Mayfair, in what would now be deserted streets, to Brigit Riley, another great British artist from that generation, David Zwirner was showing several of her works from the 1980′s and 1990′s alongside a parallel exhibition of work from the last years of the abstract artist Paul Klee, […]
In the staircase and up to the first floor at the Marlborough Gallery above Lars Fisk’s exhibition ‘Wattle & Daub’, is a splendid series of prints by 20th and 21st century artists Victor Pasmore, Ken Kiff, Bridget Riley, Louise Bourgeois, Grayson Perry and Beatriz Milhazes, covering the last 40 years and showing the variety and […]
One of the joys of visiting art exhibitions, whether at galleries or at auction houses, is finding something new. You think that there have been so many exhibitions of Andy Warhol that there is nothing new to see, yet at Christie’s this week, one of the highlights is a series of portraits, the ‘Athletes’ which […]
It’s the week in London when the three main auction houses have sales of a wide range of 20th century and contemporary art. While it is impossible to be comprehensive – I did not spot any work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for example – the three auction houses do provide an outstanding exhibition between […]
Two Grecian temples which epitomise the Athens of the North are the Royal Scottish Acadrmy and the National Gallery, with a third, albeit incomplete, nearby Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Architectual masterpieces where Edinburgh’s Old Town and New Town come together, designed by Henry William Playfair in the early 19th century, they left a problem of […]
Goodbye white walls. I wonder what the architects Dixon Jones think of Bridget Riley’s addition to their pristine white walls in for the Annenberg Courtyard of the National Gallery in London as part of the East Wing masterplan, created over a decade ago by transforming an unloved external courtyard. Riley’s mural, Messengers, shows that art […]
Human creativity is linked to lines, whether those first markings on a prehistoric pot or a cave wall, the perspective of the columns of the Greek Parthenon, the hieroglyphics of Egypt, the musical scores of Beethoven, the plays of Shakespeare, the distorted shapes in a sketch by Picasso or the optical forms in a painting […]
"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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