Bernard Leach arrived in the old fishing town of St Ives in Cornwall along with Shoji Hamada in 1920 – astonishingly almost 100 years ago. He was in the vanguard of artists who established St Ives as a centre for British modern art from the 1920′s onwards, strengthened when Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum […]
St Ives in Cornwall has a long history as a fishing village, with the old rambling Sloop Inn built around 1312 and a popular dinking place for fishermen since then, being the oldest pub in Cornwall. The arrival of the railway in 1877 brought holiday makers seeking the sun and the sands and major expansion […]
When visiting these two exhibitions at Tate Britain, it is best to see the Paul Nash first and then the David Hockney. Not only is it the best way chronologically, but also emotionally: Nash’s work is sombre and the colours muted; Hockney’s is vibrant and alive, pushing at the boundaries of artistic technology, finishing on a […]
"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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