This spring, different art galleries in London have decided that white walls are so last year, for example at NOW London for Sara Shakeel, at Hauser & Wirth for Keith Tyson and, now, at Waddington Custot for their exhibition on grafitti art. Is this the start of a revolution, where modern gallery designers and curators […]
The three Brutalist towers and extensive piazza of the Economist Building in St James’s, London, with steps down to the neighbouring streets, designed by architects Alison and Peter Smithson was radical in its day, set alongside the traditional architecture of Mayfair, and, though completed in 1964, still looks new and fresh today. I would doubt […]
Jedd Novatt’s balanced geometric sculptures have gone and, with a quick change-around, the gallery takes on a different character with a different artist. Can man and nature live together? Here in Mayfair, the only animals you are likely to see are dogs accompanying their owners or, perhaps in the depths of night, a fox, mice […]
Over the winter, American artist Jedd Novatt was showing his acrobatic, balancing geometric works which defy gravity at Waddington Custot in Mayfair. By coincidence, earlier in the year when London was covered in a sprinkling of show one of his works was available at Phillips auction of contemporary art. Novatt’s geometric shapes are architectural in […]
Like colourful waterfalls, the streams of colour pour down the walls and swirl around as puddles at the bottom, feeling so fresh that you don’t dare touch them. We are used to seeing Ian Davenport’s huge paintings exploring vertical streams of colours, for example his 48 metre long mural under the railway bridge in Southwark […]
In the 1970’s Allan D’Arcangelo (1930-1988) was well-known in the art world and is represented in many collections in America and Europe but, in 1975, (according to Wikipedia) he decided to quite the international gallery that represented him and, retiring to a farm in Kenoza Lake with his family, he virtually disappeared from the art […]
Boxing comes to the heart of Mayfair. You cannot imagine two very different worlds, but on stepping through the door of Waddington Custot in Cork Street, you leave behind white-painted gallery spaces and step into another more gritty world, enclosed and hidden from the street. Ahead of you is a long horizontal vitrine ‘Boxkampf für […]
Three exhibitions among the fine art galleries of Cork Street in Mayfair, London; three different artists or groups of artists; three contrasting use of deconstructed and reconstructed geometry. The British Artist Mark Vaux’s aptly-named exhibition “New Ovals” at the Bernard Jacobson Gallery has a number of his recent works focused on large ovoid paintings. Vaux […]
"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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