Why is it that public galleries don’t collect paintings from popular artists, but go their own way with more esoteric artists promoted by curators and international galleries? Apparently there are no works by Banksy in a major public gallery in the UK, something Scottish artist Jack Vettriano has also had to endure – it was […]
With Valentine’s Day next week, this is the second year of Sotheby’s on-line auction, ‘Erotic, Passion & Desire’ with works from the antique to the contemporary around the themes of sex and love. On show in the seductively-lit galleries, the auction includes a first-century Roman terracotta scene of a brothel, white marble classical sculptures of […]
"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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