Monday 25 November 2013

Autumn in London: Part 1


 
 A few weeks ago I popped down to London to do a craft fair and also see some sights and exhibitions. Here's a few things I saw:-

  
 Cranes and Planes...
  
 Gasometer and Gormley...
 We took a trip on the cable car across the Thames (more pics and another trip on it in Part 2!)...
 Saw people climbing on top of the O2 dome...
Lines of the O2...
     
'A slice of reality' cross-section boat sculpture by Richard Wilson and industrialness...
 
Beautiful Shadow Type at Mordern Wharf...
 Beautiful Derelictness...
  
Cutty Sark in the Dark and filimg going on at the Royal Naval College (for the Man from Uncle remake)...
 
 The Shard & a London Bus and The Rose Window...
 Olde Map...
 
 Tate Modern (I saw the Paul Klee & Mira Schendel exhibitions  - both amazing) and St. Pauls across the Thames...
New Buildings are always popping up (how do you get 3 cranes on the top of a building?)...
  
 Murals near the Hayward (I saw the great Ana Mendieta exhibition) and one near Regent Street...
 
 Another Mural and a Cute Cat next to me on the train home!

-I had another London trip planned for soon after, details coming up in Part 2!-


Monday 18 November 2013

Joseph Conrad Book Series for DailyLit

https://dailylit.com/book/94-heart-of-darkness  https://dailylit.com/book/96-lord-jim
    
Over the summer I did a few book covers for the Creative Action Network's 'Recovering the Classics' project. See my posts about them here and here. My cover for Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' went down quite well and was featured a bit in the promotion of the project, then the lovely people over at Plympton commissioned me to create a whole series of Conrad covers for their DailyLit site.

https://dailylit.com/book/20-an-outcast-of-the-islands   https://dailylit.com/book/99-under-western-eyes   

DailyLit is a great site where you can subscribe to all sorts of books and they send you a chapter a day to your inbox! They've just released a new version of their site and my Conrad Covers are all on there {as well as my Swann's Way by Proust cover I did for the initial 'Recovering the Classics' project} 

Head on over {click each image to be taken there} to read this series of Conrad novels and loads of others!

https://dailylit.com/book/98-the-secret-agent   https://dailylit.com/book/19-nostromo-a-tale-of-the-seaboard  

Have you read any Conrad? What's your favourite?


Wednesday 13 November 2013

Chatsworth Sculpture Exhibition 2013

  
David Breuer-Weil 'Alien' and Tony Cragg 'Current Version'

A few weeks ago I went to Chatsworth to see their annual sculpture exhibition with Sothebys, called Beyond Limits. Here's some of my favourites and other finds in the gorgeous gardens:-

 
Baltasar Lobo 'Femme Assise, Mains Croisees' et fleurs jaunes...

  
The Cascade, outside and in...
  
Trees and Trees...

  
Mysterious rock room peeked into through a locked door in the grotto...

Grotto Lake...

  
A bronze head randomly come across in the gardens & Marc Quinn 'Spiral of the Galaxy'...

  
Alice Aycock 'Cyclone Twist' and Mario Merz 'Igloo Ticino' {also just saw his wife's, Marisa Merz's amazing exhibition at the Serpentine in London - it's a must see!}...


  
Jaume Plensa's amazing 'Marianna' looks like an unbelievable mirage from faraway...

  
Tony Cragg's 'Tongue in Cheek' seen two ways...

  
Tony Cragg 'Declination' & Thomas Heatherwick 'Pavilion'...

Unus Safardiar 'The Lens'...

  
 and old and new roses in the rose garden

{Here's when I went to the exhibition in previous years - 2011, 2010 and 2009}