A friend I had not seen since teenage years messaged me out of the blue. She was coming to London. She would not be in town for long but would like to meet even if it was for just 5 minutes. In a heartbeat the instinct was either this was something that got buried in […]
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There is a photograph in Åsa Johannesson’s exhibition at Stills in Edinburgh that stops you. Not because it shouts. Because it waits. Each portrait conveys something specific — a glance, a tiny tattoo, creases in a shirt, an awkward poise, a turned neck. These are not symbols. They are specifics. The particularity of a person […]
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Today, July 25, marks the birth anniversary of Rosalind Elsie Franklin (1920–1958), the brilliant British chemist whose X‑ray crystallography images led directly to the model of DNA’s double helix. Whilst Franklin began her scientific journey with a PhD in physical chemistry from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1945, it was at King’s College London where her X‑ray […]
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Anne Bayne welcomes her husband, the poet Allan Ramsey back from the Grand Tour only to find that London is pulling him away. His career as being part of the centre of the Enlightenment movement in Edinburgh dawns the prospect of a monument being created in his name. Anne resists the public attention that this will generate, […]
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Coming Soon to Greater Manchester Fringe! An adventure around London’s Bloomsbury with Ottoline. It’s 1922 and Lady Morrell is looking for the right love letter to put into a memorial for her beloved Tiger. Life is not a straight line as she stands in her tangled garden that has been without a labourer since Tiger […]
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Slough has a history that is old and new. The shopping centre dates back to the 1970s, an era now getting a revival of popularity for its brutalist architecture. Buildings in the 70s were made to last and put function alongside design. Seeing the city centre shopping mall be redesigned to suit the needs of […]
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Anne loved the Artist Allan Ramsay who painted her with such tenderness. At the time before their marriage he travelled through Italy. Anne would have felt alone with her thoughts and love for him. Before their marriage in 1739 Allan spent time in Rome learning the Rococo style of painting that inspired his own work. […]
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After a joyful group show at Filet London and Echos Studios Brazil I am showing my digital work online at Oxfordshire Art Week. The landscapes can be viewed by clicking this >> link << when it goes active in Spring time. I discovered six trees from Japan in our local park today. Following the ley […]
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This exhibition pops colour before my eyes before my foot sets through the door. Karla Black is a Turner Prize Artist with a retrospective in Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery. The building began as a Fruit Warehouse in 1931 and has recently expanded with the use of steel beams and brickwork to provide wider space for Artists […]
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Curiosity and the cat – I don’t have a dog so I follow my cats advice and just roam. A few miles away from my home is Barton, it’s a place I have never been as I believed it to be largely suburban and mainly residential houses. It is a nice day and so it […]
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