Drawn into your Presence
My friend, Jim Grover, has organised a remarkable exhibition in a 1950s church, St. James, Park Hill, in Clapham. It pairs nineteenth-century steel engravings with his own photographs of related subjects, which makes one look at both his photographs and the steel engravings with a different order of interest. The engravings are selected from the…
Sir Roy Strong CH (5)
A very nice blog on the Warburg’s website about Roy Strong’s time there as a postgraduate student (although it’s worth remembering that for most of his time, the Warburg was still in South Kensington, only moving to Bloomsbury in 1958). I’ve read the relevant chapter in his autobiography before, but it somehow reads differently as…
Tyneham
Although I read Patrick Wright’s The Village That Died for England when it first came out in 1995, I have never been to Tyneham, nor the valley in which it sits. I was not prepared for the beauty of the view from the top of the hill overlooking Tyneham – a scene of field and…
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