Vanbrugh Revisited
If you happen to be in Cambridge tomorrow, I am giving a lecture at Christ’s reviewing the events of Vanbrugh300 and looking back at his Tercentenary. All are welcome:- https://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/event/vanbrugh-revisted-lady-margaret-lecture
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:- Madagascar Screw Palm:- 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):-