Canary Wharf, Thames path.
The Thames path is worth a walk. This view of Canary Wharf hides the scale of the river. We’re past the last Bridge, Tower Bridge, on the way out to sea.
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Canary Wharf Station,
A rare quiet moment at a London Railway Station. Time to appreciate the architecture on this contemporary station. How does Canary Wharf’s Station compare with the likes of King’s Cross and St Pancras?
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Canal Heritage Tour and the Sanctity of Art
The Rochdale Canal has a particular draw to me. I grew up near the canal where it passed through Middleton Junction. The water flowed with barely a trickle, except after heavy rain. The Locks were replaced with a cement wall. I spent the spring of 1984 beside the canal sketching that closed lock and the mill beyond.
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Footprint of a Business.
A shop front at the V & A.
No attempt at realisation was made here. Pure abstract emerges from real imagery. The feature was once shop frontage preserved at the V & A. Pinned to a wall, it forms a sculpture. The shell of its former glory, intriguing and lonely.
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Vanishing Figures on Chelsea Bridge
Chelsea Bridge dominates the painting, or rather, its pillar dominates. You can’t see the other three main pillars which support these giant cables. The rivets are on display in neat rows, each one of 1000s that has been painted with numerous layers, so that details are lost, their shape just perceptible. On this sunny day, they cast crisp shadows on the metal face.
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Mini Manchester Town Hall
There’s an impression of the town hall, its Gothic majesty and historic importance tantalsingly vague. Details can be filled in with the imagination. I know it’s four twenty pm but the right hand clock face could easily be read as ten to four pm.
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The Architecture of Choices: A Painter’s View of St. Pancras
Decision making is an essential part throughout the process of creating art. Decisions such as composition, the degree of abstraction or realism, the scale of the artwork and the degree of detail. All those factors come into play in the creation of St Pancras Station.
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Ascent to a Dream – Albert Hall.
The Albert Hall is a dream location, for many aspiring musicians. It’s a dream to perform there. More than that, the Albert Hall has a program of working with schools to make these dreams come true for groups of school children.
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Mulberry Passage – Manchester’s Hidden Gems
This gateway is part of a small complex of passages which together form an artwork dedicated to the memory of Manchester scientist John Dalton. I took the photograph because the gateway interested me. At the time, I didn’t know about the connection to Dalton, but I saw an eye motif that was appealing and intriguing. I wanted to know more,
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