New Pinterest Board- 'Brights'

Ok, so it may be pouring with rain outside, but forward think to summer and take some inspiration from my new Pinterest board! Check it out here.

Artists and their Studios- in The Times Magazine today

An artist's studio is their only properly private space, keeping the depths of themselves a mystery to the outside work, until a work comes into the limelight and enters the public's domain. They can be fascinating spaces, accounting for years of unchecked creativity, and almost a work of art in their own right as they reveal so much about their owner. A new book, Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and Their Studios is to be released on the 12th March by Thames & Hudson, showing 120 of the country's artists in their workplaces. From Tracey Emin, to Grayson Perry and Lucian Freud, these photographs bring to light previously hidden and untouched interiors. 

A quote taken from Cecile Debray's, Lucian Freud: the studio, published on the occasion of the exhibition: ‘Lucian Freud: l’atelier’; “Freud works the walls in a double sense: over the thirty years or so of occupying his top flat studio at 36 Holland Park (1977-2009), he deposited dabs and smears of excess paint on available walls, gradually creating deeply textured surfaces of accumulated, hardened paste; during the same period, these paint walls returned to Freud’s canvases in the form of renderings of themselves- paint representing paint, often surrounded by similar paint that represents flesh”.

Scans my own, originally in The Times Magazine on 25.02.12

Stop, Look, Listen: Three things to do this week.

A new feature to the blog, where I recommend things to do and see in London each week.

STOP.

David Hockney: A Bigger Picture at the Royal Academy. One of the must-see exhibitions of the year, featuring new large-scale works inspired by the East Yorkshire countryside. The exhibition also displays Hockney's iPad drawings and a series of films exploring his artistic journey. On till the 9th April 2012. 

LOOK.

Issue 7 of Love Magazine is out now. The spring/summer 2012 pop-art cover features Linda Evangelista, photographed by Mert & Marcus and styled by Katie Grand. 

LISTEN.

A Sou Fujimoto lecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture on Thursday at 1pm. Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect who established his practice in 2000, specialising in a "primitive future" style; a primitive situation that relates to the human "cave" habitation along with something new for the future. His projects include House N in Oita City and House O in Minami Boso.