Julian Bell has an exhibition for one week only in a gallery space in 15, Bateman Street in the heart of Soho.
I was particularly taken by two pictures. One of Dover, apparently topographically exact, but at the same time subtly symbolic. The three castles;-
The other was a picture of the never-ending queue of cars going into the Blackwall Tunnel. Although I know this scene only too well, it took me a bit of time to figure it out – again, a subtle mixture of the real and the symbolic, like American painters of tge 1930s:-
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