Arts organisations are leading the way in adapting to the current lockdown, with museum and theatre doors firmly locked, fine exhibitions of art in darkness and theatre stages empty. While not quite the same as seeing the real thing, we can watch ballets from the Royal Opera House, learn art from Grayson Perry in his […]
When you read or watch the news can you tell what is real and what might be staged? President Donald Trump is fond of using the phrase ‘fake news’, but if you are in the USA and watch Fox News and CNN, you will find two entirely different views of the world, confusing to the […]
Stuck indoors during the current health crisis? You never known, you might find a new and different career. Scottish comedian and musician Billy Connolly shows us the way. Stuck in a hotel in Montreal on a rainy day, he decided to take up drawing, something that he admits he was not very good at when […]
What is it about art that inspires artists to continue to be creative and to experiment even when they are still in their 80′s. In Britain, the best artists from that generation are still experimenting with new ideas, including Bridget Riley (born 1931), Peter Blake (born 1932), Patrick Hughes (born 1939) and David Hockney (born […]
"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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