It seems very strange to reflect that, four weeks ago, we were in a different world of record-breaking rainfall, and, walking along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, you had to weave round the flooded pathways along the riverbank to make your way up to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, past Antony Gormley’s ”Six […]
While Philip Haas’s large organic sculptures ‘The Four Seasons’ currently grace the forecourt of the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, USA, maquettes of the same sculptures are here in Surrey, welcoming visitors to the newly-opened Welcome Centre at RHS Wisley, the first phase of an ambitious £160 million investment in the future of RHS Wisley […]
As one of our greatest British sculptors, the best places to see Henry Moore’s (1896-1986) work are in his Studios in Hertfordshire and at Tate Britain, plus the many public spaces where his sculpture takes centre-stage. If you wanted to own something smaller than his huge sculptures, then this was the week to pop along […]
The sculptor Henry Moore and his family moved to a rented property in Perry Green in Hertfordshire in 1940 after their home in London had been bombed. They enjoyed the environment so much that what was expected to a temporary move became permanent and, with the sale of a sculpture to an American collector (astonishingly […]
Outside, Berkeley Square is relatively quiet, covered in snow, with cars and motor cycles parked around the square creating white silhouettes. Against this snowy backcloth, spread over four floors, sit sculptures and paintings from Phillip’s 20th Century & Contemporary Art evening and day sales which include work by Damien Hirst, along with with Igor Mitoraj’s […]
After an exciting life, Old Flo has returned to London, and to her old borough of Tower Hamlets, for her retirement. Poor Old Flo. For 35 years she had a contented life in Tower Hamlets, living on the Stifford housing estate in Stepney, where she was well loved. Then, with the demolition of her home, […]
Street art inside St Paul’s Cathedral. Shock, horror! A bold image of a mother and child, a 21st century interpretation of Mary, mother of Jesus, catches visitors by surprise in one of the transepts. It is perhaps unexpected to find modern and contemporary artworks within the majestic historic architecture of St Paul’s Cathedral, this most […]
This February sees London celebrating Yorkshire artists and designers, with the David Hockney exhibition at Tate Britain and, this week, Henry Moore and Christopher Bailey, chief creative officer at Burberry, at Makers Space in Soho. Burberry was founded in 1856 and opened its shop in the Haymarket in London in 1891. Seven years later the […]
Looking for a good home – 21 fibreglass panels by the artist Paul Mount which formerly clad a supermarket in Falmouth introduce Historic England’s exhibition “Out There: Our Post War Public Art” which raises awareness of the scale and variety of public art in England since the end of the Second World War. While art has […]
Nestling in a green landscape like a pavilion in a park, a colourful contrast to the grey car park which surrounds the towering 1970’s block of Charing Cross Hospital, Maggie’s West London is one of 17 centres at NHS cancer hospitals in the UK providing support to people with cancer and their family and friends. […]
"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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