It feels like another era, several generations ago, but when I first came down from Scotland to London in the ’60′s, my cousin who lived here obviously thought as a young man from the ‘provinces’ I should be shown the delights of Soho with young scantily-clad women on the street waving and encouraging you to […]
Scottish artist Charles Avery (born 1974), born in Oban, works in the urban environment of London and on the island of Mull. Since 2004, his work has revolved around a fictional island, which feels more like Blackpool than Mull, and has become his lifetime’s project as he narrates, through his paintings, drawings, installations and films, […]
Art is meant to challenge. The exhibition “No Shadows in Hell” at the Pilar Corrias Gallery in London asks us to rethink our current perception of the future. We live in a society of contradictions, with extreme societal, environmental and political forces where the sustainability agenda may suggest that we should consume less, but our […]
"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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