Christmas Is A-Coming
Author: hamer the framer
Winter’s Herald
Over the last few weeks David Hollington has regularly been bringing us new paintings. Sometimes he brings just one, other times he arrives with a couple, and each time they’re increasingly more seasonal, almost like an advent calendar counting down to Christmas. Continue reading “Winter’s Herald”
Time Mayfly
Fanny Shorter was asked to design the packaging for a new 24 hour watch by Mr Jones. She used it as an opportunity to illustrate the life-cycle of the mayfly, which as an adult lives for just one day. Continue reading “Time Mayfly”
A Wall In Battersea
Whilst I was admiring the walls of Toledo, Dominic was getting up close and personal with the walls of Battersea Power Station, and encouraging lots of donations for the Stroke Association. Continue reading “A Wall In Battersea”
The Walls Of Toledo
Lottie said, ‘I don’t know why you’re wasting your time photographing autumn leaves, the story of Toledo is in its walls’. So, never one to ignore an idea for a blog post, and because there are few trees in Toledo, I began collecting images of the casco murallas. Continue reading “The Walls Of Toledo”
Orange
I couldn’t resist this photograph of the kitchen table. Maybe I’m suffering SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and missing the sun, but just a few more clementines and it’s a model of the solar system.
Word Origins
Mary Kuper is presently exhibiting a series of prints and illustrations, inspired by the ever changing meanings of words, at the Free Word Centre in Clerkenwell.
Hardy Ash?
Last Sunday I went back to St Pancras Old Church for the first time since April (A Walk From King’s Cross) to see how the Hardy Tree was getting on. It is not a particularly grand tree, nor is it ancient but it is probably London’s most significant ash tree. With all the hysteria in the press I wondered if I would find signs here of ash dieback. Is this tree able to withstand the coming plague or is it doomed and this site to become a memorial to fraxinus excelsior? Continue reading “Hardy Ash?”
Kite Paintings
Last Saturday, as a break from Christmas shopping and to escape the hectic West End crowds, I found a few moments of calm at the Gimpel Fils gallery amongst these wonderful Richard Smith paintings. The exhibition is called Kite Paintings and includes a group of rarely seen works from the 1970s, with canvas stretched on aluminium poles, recalling tents and sails as well as kites. Continue reading “Kite Paintings”
For James Ravilious
This is a short trailer for James Ravilious: A World In Photographs, a film by Hugh and Anson Hartford, originally shown on BBC Four and now available from Banyak Films. The first time I saw his photographs was in the early 1980s at an exhibition by Common Ground called Second Nature at the London Ecology Centre in Covent Garden. I came away with a beautiful photograph of sheep in the shade of an oak tree, In The Heat Of May, just one of 80,000 photographs he took of rural life in North Devon for the Beaford Archive between 1972 and 1999. He was the son of artist and designer Eric Ravilious, and he was a self-taught photographer. Read more at the James Ravilious website.