Perhaps the Biennale anticipated something when it picked the theme for 2019 ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’. We certainly do in Britain with politics that seem to change by the hour and, today, sadly the Biennale is closed and Venice is flooded following the highest water levels in 50 years while, in Yorkshire and […]
So, you have commissioned a well-known artist like Pablo Picasso or Andy Warhol to do your portrait. A bold decision – are you sure that you will like the result? Lady Churchill famously destroyed a portrait of her husband by Graham Sutherland because she couldn’t stand it. In this era of selfies and digital cameras, […]
Perhaps the most impressive work at Lorenzo Quinn’s latest exhibition at the Halycon Gallery is ‘Empowerment’, with two hands, possibly from different countries, different parts of the one country, different religions and different cultures holding the world together, a sculpture which has been chosen to represent HRH the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award World Fellowship which […]
"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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