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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Soviet Art and Architecture

I just managed to catch the Royal Academy’s Soviet Art and Architecture (1915-1935) and recreation of Tatlin’s Tower before they closed late this month.  The tower in the academy’s courtyard was definitely eye-catching. Seeing many of the drawings in the exhibition was a bit like being back at school – lots of pencil, red and…

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Five Friday photos – London’s South Bank lights

Walking around London at night has become a colourful event and here are five photographs which reflect that. The first is fittingly Art = Pants by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist: 300 pairs of internally illuminated pairs of pants hanging outside the Hayward Gallery. The Old Vic on The cut looked superbly Christmassy but the carousel also…

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Big leaf, little leaf

Going through the iPhone archive, I found these two leaves which were lying like this on the autumn pavement.  I wanted to play around with size of the same kinds of shapes because of this and used coloured pencils. Here’s a scanned version of the drawing I did.  If I’ve learned one thing from this…

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Launching Living Abstracts

Hello and welcome to a blog which responds to the creative and inspirational life of London. It seems that just about anything and everything can set off a creative train of thought.  Some of my favourites are shop windows, art galleries and nature, but films and music are definitely on the list too.  It’s been…

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