I had not planned to visit the ICA, but, as I was visiting the de la Cruz Collection and had already parked in the unique artistic parking structure, Museum Garage, where there is a minimum of 3 hours, I decided to explore the ICA after the de la Cruz Collecion. I am glad that I […]
One of Fernardo Botero’s curvaceous women welcomes visitors to the classical Georgian building which is of course an illusion – a temporary façade erected every year in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea for the annual art and antique fair Masterpiece. If there is a colour that subtlety predominates here it is red: […]
Eight sets of smokey mirrored glass panels sit beneath the square lighting grid of the gallery. Set on a grey carpet to give the impression that they are floating, the 6ft square sheets of glass are not joined but their free-standing arrangement gives the impression of cubes, with multiple reflections of visitors bouncing from cube […]
Reflections, lights, colours and shapes brought the sunshine of California to the dark cold winter of Edinburgh at the Fruitmarket Gallery. In the 1960’s and 1970’s, artists in California such as Robert Irwin and Larry Bell were experimenting with minimal materials using colour, lighting, reflections and geometry in a movement known appropriately as “Light and […]
The American artist and sculptor Larry Bell (born 1939) is a leading member of the Californian “Light and Space” movement, creating work which explores the relationship between light and colour, solidity and translucency and art and the viewer through the sculptural and reflective properties of his compositions. ‘2D-3D: Glass & Vapor’ is Bell’s fourth solo […]
"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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