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, […]
There is something mysterious about the figures in Jockum Nordström’s collages – almost as if the figures in them were acting out parts in one the dark sinister novels for which Swedish authors such as Stieg Larsson have become well-known. And so it is too with his drawings showing figures set in simplistic, almost naive, interiors […]
Born in 1888, German artist Josef Albers joined the Bauhaus in 1922 showing his flexibility and dexterity across different media including furniture and architectural glass where he collaborated with artists such as Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. With the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933 due to Nazi pressure, Albers moved to the United […]
Once a centre of British political life when it was the home of home of Lord Robert Cecil, the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury who was twice the Prime Minister of Britain, the house in the heart of Mayfair still exudes its 18th century elegance. Something is amiss though. On walking up the elegant staircase, 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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