At the same time as President Trump is announcing new USA tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports, raising the tensions in trade between the two countries, Ed Moses and Qin Feng are bridging across the cultures and the generations at Blain|Southern in London. In the cool white double-height spaces overlooking Hanover Street, paintings and ink […]
The former industrial building with its folded roof that is now the Modern Art space near City Road, London, has taken on the character of an exclusive Bond Street gallery with the first room having just four small works inserted like precious objects into the wall and the second room filled with standing cases each holding one individual […]
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 […]
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 […]
An extensive exhibition of drawings, ceramics and sculptures covering 40 years of work by Ken Price bring the vibrant colours and shapes from southern California and Mexico to brighten up the dark wet winter days of London. One of the most important ceramic artists of the 20th century, American artist Ken Price took influences from […]
Reflections, lights, colours and shapes brought the sunshine of California to the dark cold winter of Edinburgh at the Fruitmarket Gallery. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, artists in California such as Robert Irwin and Larry Bell were experimenting with minimal materials using colour, lighting, reflections and geometry in a movement known appropriately as “Light and […]
The American artist and sculptor Larry Bell (born 1939) is a leading member of the Californian “Light and Space” movement, creating work which explores the relationship between light and colour, solidity and translucency and art and the viewer through the sculptural and reflective properties of his compositions. ‘2D-3D: Glass & Vapor’ is Bell’s fourth solo […]
"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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