Running along the Thames, Battersea Park has many aspects and different areas to be discovered within it. Tucked away, hidden behind the trees is Battersea Evolution, which houses many events and exhibitions, five minutes walk from the Pump House Gallery. This week it has come alive with the best of affordable art from around the […]
If it’s October, it must be the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. Generally more adventurous than its Hampstead cousin, this year there are a number of new galleries from the UK and abroad and a continuation of the trend to use non-traditional materials to create art. Recycled materials are assembled into sculptures of cats, horses, […]
Imagine a world in which antique rusty hand-saws which for many decades were used to saw through trees, branches and timber planks become transformed into trees…..Imagine a pile of old wooden rulers which used to measure out timber for marquetry themselves becoming marquetry panels…..Imagine ordinance-survey maps that illustrate the location of woodlands in your neighbourhood […]
"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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