I wonder if Eduardo Paolozzi and Paula Rego ever met. They were born only eleven years apart, Paolozzi in Leith (in 1924), Edinburgh, of Italian parents, and Rego in Lisbon Portugal in1935. Both brought new bold, but different, dynamics into British art, Paolozzi’s work being very masculine and Rego’s focussed on feminist themes. What discussions […]
In May 1871 Paris was in shock. A year earlier, France made the mistake of declaring war on Prussia. In six weeks, each side had lost 100,000 men and Napoleon III was deposed, after which Paris suffered three months of siege and the Paris Commune had been born, only to be crushed by the French […]
If an original painting by Sam Francis was beyond your budget, then you should have gone to the London Original Print Fair, where Bernard Jacobson has prints for sale, including Sam Francis’ “Senza Titolo II (Untled II)” from 1987 (and already sold when I visited). Prints, in all their forms, produced by artists have always been […]
“She Came to Stay” is a novel published by French author Simone de Beauvoir in 1943 as a fictional account of her and Jean-Paul Sartre‘s relationship with Olga and Wanda Kosakiewicz. Set in Paris on the eve of and during the Second World War, the novel explores many existentialist concepts such as freedom, angst and the other. Rook 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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