'The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.' - Stanley Kubrick I grew up loving black and white films: dramas, romances, musicals and mysteries....
As I haven't created any 'Weekly Snaps' posts for ages, I should just say that they are almost entirely written in images; I always find wandering about, looking at things and finding stuff that matches up far more satisfying and expressive than words...
Last week I got a sneak preview of the new Azzadine Alaïa exhibition at The Design Museum in London. It’s a fantastic tribute to an incredible couturier who trained in sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Tunis and who regarded his dresses as works...
Last February I went to stay with Rachel @welliesandlove at her home in Yorkshire where her famed round window lives...
Yesterday I went to Hereford with Wyld Wood Cider to visit their organic cider farm and apple orchards. It was a really interesting experience visiting Weston’s; a fifth generation, family-run business founded by Henry Weston in 1878. They harvest the apples, ferment their cider and also...
Last month I visited the new Design Museum in Kensington, London for a look around the ‘Breathing Colour’ exhibition by Hella Jongerius. I didn’t know much about it but knew that it would definitely appeal to my obsessive sense of colour...
I'm staying in Amsterdam for a couple of day with my son as he's just finished his GCSE's and I thought he could do with a post exam treat...
This week I was invited by Georg Jensen to visit their Mount St store in London to watch one of their Danish silversmiths from Copenhagen, Tina Bentzen, demonstrate some of her techniques, her sketches, answer questions and show us some of her amazing hand...
In this third week of my work with The History of Modern Medical Science, I wanted to look at a recurring theme which seem to run through quite a few of the stories from Witnesses To Modern Medical Science. It became apparent to me that the...
St Fagan’s was one of those accidental finds...