How does Grayson Perry see himself these days. Once a rebel of the art world, currently with an exhibition of his work at Victoria Miro, here he is as one of the classical contemporary artists at Frieze Masters, the sister to Frieze which shows art that is more classical and established, from Egyptian to modern […]
Here we are in Mayfair, not far from Bond Street, where we might be in a top store which in the 19th century would have been selling high quality ceramic vases from China, or from one of the renowned European porcelain houses such as Meissen, or from one of the best potteries in Stoke-on-Trent, to […]
With the art crowd invading London this week, the auction houses have stepped up to the mark with auctions of modern and contemporary art. While Christie’s has stellar works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Schutte and others, with a focus on Italian art alongside British, it also has more affordable […]
There can’t be many, if any, art events on the scale of the Summer Exhibition which are still going strong after 250 years. With such a momentous anniversary and with its redevelopment project completed, the Royal Academy had to pull out all the stops this year so, who better to ask to coordinate it than […]
The Serpentine Gallery in leafy Kensington Gardens, located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a borough which highlights many of the contrasts in British society and which, against all odds, elected a Labour Member of Parliament in the recent General Election, is the appropriate location for Grayson Perry’s exhibition over the summer, “The […]
If an original painting by Sam Francis was beyond your budget, then you should have gone to the London Original Print Fair, where Bernard Jacobson has prints for sale, including Sam Francis’ “Senza Titolo II (Untled II)” from 1987 (and already sold when I visited). Prints, in all their forms, produced by artists have always been […]
"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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