Setting Up the Pitch
Painting of Battersea Park with a busker setting up his pitch and Chelsea Bridge in the background. Painted by Contemporary Artist Cathy Read
Meditations on Paintings
Love Locks – Why are They a Thing?
Thoughts on the painting of Love Locks by Contemporary Artist Cathy Read. An urban phenomenon with a relatively short history.
Victorian Destinations Meditation
Paintings take time to create and once they are made, tell stories by themselves. Cathy Read learns their tales by meditating on the finished painting and combining these discoveries with thoughts that were in her head at the time she painted them. This is the story behind Victorian Destinations.
Heading Home past Central Library
We’re standing near the Midland hotel and looking across the road to Central Library and St. Peter’s Square in the distance. It’s after 5pm and commuters are beginning that journey home. A number cross the road, taking advantage of the many light controlled crossings and enjoying that feeling of relief that the day’s work is …
Music Stand
Music Stand At the corner of Tib street and Cross street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester, this marvellous musically inspired creation once stood. I say once, as it has now been removed, sadly. Created by David Kemp and is also known as the Big Horn or Tib Street Tuba. This bizarre edifice stood tall, …
St Pancras King’s Cross
St. Pancras and King’s Cross stations are a stone’s throw apart. It’s puzzling why two large stations should have been built so close together, and yet they were. St Pancras looks the older, with its ornate Victorian brickwork and railings. Just look at that name sign, in wrought iron. Atop these magnificent gates with spikes …