Pop Art is still alive and well. Brigit Riley created her famous painting ‘Pause’ on show in the current exhibition at the Gazelli Art House in 1964. Now in her late 80′s, she has just completed her staircase mural ‘Messengers’ at the National Gallery in London. Brian Clarke produced his ‘Three Hand Grenades’ in 1969; […]
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 […]
A shuttered window with a patriotic Stars and Stripes stuck on the dirty glass, along with an “Open” sign suggesting a hotel or lodging house that has seen better days. The other building is more modern, constructed from concrete bricks, possibly also a hotel as it is at a road junction and, at the bottom, […]
Looking like a young rebel of the 1960’s with his denim suit covered in badges (one of which appears to be of Elvis Presley) and holding a leaflet also with Elvis, Peter Blake’s “Self-Portrait with Badges” in Tate Britain is an appetiser to his exhibition “Peter Blake: Portraits and People”, at the Waddington Custot Galleries, […]
"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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