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 […]
Windows looking out onto a typical spring day in London, with grey skies, rain that seems to not know when to stop (if ever) and people rushing past in their dark coats, clutching umbrellas overhead. On the walls are other windows, misty, foggy, through which are men and women are waiting to be discovered. […]
Giants have invaded Mayfair! Bursting out of the first floor windows, the giant’s legs drop down into Sackville Street while, through the ground floor windows, you can see his head and shoulders; hopefully his acrobatics have not damaged the historic Robert Adam ceiling in the first floor. No 29 Sackville Street in Mayfair was […]
It was a bitterly cold, damp and dark January night in London and the normally-quiet Rathbone Place, north of Oxford Street, had, unusually, a long queue of people, stretching along the street, waited in anticipation for the opening of “The Road; Soho” from UNKLE, or rather James Lavelle, at Lazardies Rathbone. Who, for the unitiated, is UNKLE and who […]
The windows are covered over with panels of tiles, with three cartoon-like characters floating through the glass, giving a hint of what is inside. Inside, ceramic tiles decorate one of the walls, while the shadows of ceramic tiles weave through the paintings elsewhere. Holland and Portugal: two countries with a tradition of producing and using decorated […]
When Maser strikes, everything is likely to be covered in his colourful abstract geometric stripes and shapes – walls, floors, furniture and even buses and cars. Irish street artist Maser has arrived in London. Just as the windows of four Bond Street buildings have been taken over by artists, those of 11 Rathbone Place now […]
Describing himself as a drawer of pictures a dreamer of drainbows, Todd James is a self-taught street artist from New York who started tagging the New York City Subway system under the name REAS when he was young. His work has a vibrant colourful graphic cartoon-like quality and he has designed logos for the Beastie […]
Portugese street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils has opened his new show Dissonance at Lazarides’ gallery in London, developing his work from previous shows Dissection, held at Lisbon’s EDP Museum in 2014 and Vestiges, held at the Gallery Magda Danysz in Paris. Dissonance explores the relationship between individuals and the city and how individuality and […]
"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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