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Fleet Street Painting of the Icon Daily Express building - ©2016 Cathy Read -Watercolour and acylic ink - 56 x 76.5cm

Meditating on the Fleet Street Daily Express Building

Meditating on a Fleet Street Painting What do I notice first? The Daily Express Building dark and dominant, reflecting colour but from where? You can’t see, only imagine. Little flecks of bright blue contrast with the light absorbing depths of darkness that surrounds them. Ahead of its time, the building still feels contemporary, despite it’s

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Painting of the Gherkin and surrounding buildings on the London skylineWhispering Glass-©2018-Cathy Read-Watercolour and Acrylic ink-50x40cm

Whispering Glass – Meditating on a Moody Gherkin Painting.

Gherkin painting – meditating on Whispering Glass. The first thing you’ll notice in this is a swathe of blue green swirling from the top of the Gherkin painting, which d disappears, after a few wave. Slipping  down by the dark building at the bottom right. Then, what looks like smoke rising from behind the office

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Painting of the Natural History Museum's main entrance in vibrant colours Natural History Gaffiti ©2018 - Cathy Read - Watercolour and Acrylic ink

Natural History Graffiti – Meditations on a Painting

Natural history graffiti The first thing you notice about natural history graffiti is the towering edifice looming above you. It seems to go on forever. Drawing your eyes up to the molten sky, like they’re alien rocks or Meteors hurled across space. The sky is simultaneously fluid and cracked like a parched ground. Snaking across

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