Category Archives: Photography

Beautiful Cosmos

Posted on April 20, 2013 by hamer the framer

This is for Ivor Cutler, in performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with The Roches, in the next seat at a Dollar Brand concert at Camden Town Hall, in the same train carriage from Hampstead Heath to Gospel Oak, … Read more…

Beckett At Sixty

Posted on April 10, 2013 by hamer the framer

Samuel Beckett rehearsing Endgame and ‘having an idea’ with the San Quentin Drama Workshop at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith in 1980. I worked there intermittently in those days, even had a small exhibition of my paintings there, and the house … Read more…

Flicker Pictures

Posted on March 25, 2013 by hamer the framer

We’ve been selling these ‘lenticular’ cards at The Rowley Gallery for a while now. They’ve been very popular. Seen from one angle the eye is open, look again and it’s closed. Lenticular printing is a process of combining two or … Read more…

Sue, Tilly & Marlon

Posted on March 1, 2013 by hamer the framer

Meanwhile Sue was in another wood, not Hollywood but Pinewood Studios where her father worked as a boom operator, and where she proudly introduced Tilly, her pet griffon to Marlon Brando.

Boyz In The Wood

Posted on February 28, 2013 by hamer the framer

I was just reading Melissa Harrison on the lifelong benefits of outdoor play and it seemed the appropriate moment to dig out this scruffy old photo. There seems to be a lot of concern about nature defecit disorder, a term … Read more…

The New Louvre | Small

Posted on February 24, 2013 by hamer the framer

Aaron Kasmin is showing a small selection of small still-life drawings in an exhibition entitled Small at Fred Torres Collaborations in New York together with 19th century photographic prints by Edouard Baldus entitled The New Louvre. More details here.

Hamer Man & The Stalled Ox

Posted on February 16, 2013 by hamer the framer

Dominic wanted to tell Jelly Green a short story by Saki about the man who painted cows. He couldn’t remember what it was called so, rather than walk to the public library, he searched for it on Google. Somehow “man” … Read more…

William Morris Gallery

Posted on January 26, 2013 by hamer the framer

The William Morris Gallery is at Water House in Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow. William Morris was fourteen when his family moved here in 1848. They had downsized from Woodford Hall where William’s playground had been Epping Forest. At Water … Read more…

Winter Trees

Posted on January 24, 2013 by hamer the framer

First there was this Christmas card from a painting by Mick Moon, made with oil paint & string on board and called simply Tree. Then I heard the three Staveley-Taylor sisters (aka The Staves) singing Winter Trees: The Staves – … Read more…

Winterlude

Posted on January 23, 2013 by hamer the framer

Bob Dylan – Winterlude