Kew Gardens
It was a beautifully misty autumn day in Kew for the Palm House, about to be redone, and the excellent Henry Moore exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery as well as scattered through the Gardens:- A Bottle palm:- A Madagascar Periwinkle:- A Japanese Banana:- Musella lasiocarpa:- And the roof of the Palm House:-
Lucie Rie and Hans Coper
I finally made it to the exhibition of the work of Lucie Rie and Hans Coper at Offer Waterman. I’m glad I did. Early work by Lucie Rie, astonishingly advanced and very beautiful (1928):- c.1977:- A large oval pink bowl (1980):- Then Hans Coper (1975):-
Quentin Bell
My other article in this month’s Critic is a review of the Quentin Bell exhibition at Charleston – actually, more about Quentin as a person than a review of the exhibition. It is illustrated by a photograph of him which I had not seen, held by Charleston, a version of another fine photograph by the…
