Smile for the camera….One of the great things about walking in London, even in the rain, is suddenly you discover something you’ve never seen before. In a street of mews houses and studios, Bourdon Place near Berkeley Square, a passing shopper stumbles across the photographer Terence Donovan photographing the model Twiggy close to his studios […]
Yesterday evening, I chaired an event at the Science Gallery at King’s College London at London Bridge, with the statue of Thomas Guy in the courtyard and his body in the chapel nearby. During the First World War, in 1915, Henry Lamb (1883-1960) completed his training as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital. Immediately prior to […]
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, […]
Having been to see the exhibition at Gagosian in Grosvenor Hill, it was only natural to look for the self-portraits in the two exhibitions at Tate Modern on Dorothea Tanning and Pierre Bonnard. The one that grabs you most across the two exhibitions is Dorothea Tanning’s image from 1944 of a small lone woman surrounded […]
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, […]
Surrounded by the building sites of the Old Street area regeneration, BEERS London has established its art gallery in a building which now seems restrained in contrast to the tall blocks emerging everywhere around it and internally is a simple cool simple white box in for art. The Gallery works with emerging and established artists […]
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited at Somerset House, London, displays a series of photographic portraits created by the photographer Sam Faulkner to represent soldiers from an era before photography was invented. At the end of the battle at Waterloo some 54,000 soldiers were dead or injured, with […]
As David Cameron and the Conservative party achieved a majority in the House of Commons in the recent UK election, other leaders fell. At the Woolff Gallery in London, unique portraits by Anne Marie Wright are also coming down at the end of the exhibition “What do You think – 2015 Election Special”. Anne Marie […]
"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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