Happy
St George's Day
to you all!
Emerging Artist: Art, Architecture and Culture
Happy
St George's Day
to you all!
This is a slim volume, a mere 88 pages, but does it pack a punch. I have seen it before on ebay but took it little interest. I have a copy of 'The Laura Ashley Book of Home Decorating' and that really isn't up to much; whatever the merit of the text it is spoilt the by terrible photography. However, last week I was trawling through Youtube and came across a short video by Isla Simpson on this book and I was deeply impressed by what I saw.
The research and intelligent text are by art historian Jane Clifford and the excellent photography by Arabella Campbell-McNair-Wilson.
Realising that the original illustrations were not of a high enough standard, this post has been updated, as of 18/04/2024, with a better, and wider, selection of images.
Picked this book up the other day while exhibiting at Aberglasney - they possess a rather good second hand book corner and I've picked some lovely books in my time.
I had a copy of 'Living in Style', which I believe is her third book of interior design, many years ago and, for reason I can't now remember, I got rid. I have a suspicion that I also owned 'Paint Magic', published 1981, at the same time, but I may be mistaken.
....what has become of you? Have you really so sunk so low?
Let's hope this really doesn't get planning permission. Marrons' design will not only set a dangerous precedent should it get permission, but it will do nothing to enhance Broad St while actually demeaning the current structure.
* The tower, I believe, will be be mainly, as the headline on 'Business-Live.co.uk' so elegantly puts it, 'resi'. That's residential to you and me.
** The architect of the sympathetically designed wings is however known. It was John Jones Bateman (never heard of him). They date from 1863, when 'Islington Villa' was already a hospital. The railings are also listed.
Happy Easter!
Christ is Risen!
Woke up this morning to find it had snowed in the night! Not much really but enough, for all my mature years, to get a little excited. Here are a few photographs I took of the gardens at Aberglasney when I arrived at what is the final day of my current exhibition. It is quite remarkable how even a light dusting of snow completely alters one's perception of a space or landscape.