While Philip Haas’s large organic sculptures ‘The Four Seasons’ currently grace the forecourt of the Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, USA, maquettes of the same sculptures are here in Surrey, welcoming visitors to the newly-opened Welcome Centre at RHS Wisley, the first phase of an ambitious £160 million investment in the future of RHS Wisley […]
Down to London Bridge and then to Bermondsey to find the White Cube which has been taken over by Tracey Emin with ‘A Fortnight of Tears’ showing three massive sculptures, photographs, paintings, drawings and other objects focussed on the themes of love, sex, death and fear. As with the best shows at the White Cube, […]
Paul Fryer’s Black Phoenix is perhaps representative of what those affected by the Grenfell tower fire are hoping for the future – that they can recreate a new life from one of the blackest tragedies to affect London. Tacida Dean’s new work “Lay the dust with Tears” portrays the dust clouds that would have swirled […]
The Surrealism art movement with its imaginary worlds and creatures, often created by distorting everyday and illogical objects and scenes, developed in the early 1920’s by artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Exploring the subconscious, there were feminist accusations that the movement often played to masculine stereotypes; on the other hand […]
"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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