It’s easy to become distracted at the V&A. It’s not everyday you have Leonardo da Vinci’s handwritten notebooks within eyeshot, competing with the sensual overload of countless other glorious artefacts and paintings spanning centuries. Within this glory, understated and enlightening, lies the history of the black experience in the medieval and renaissance period. Understated because […]
Top Three Reasons to Check Out Dulwich What is it about Dulwich? This charming, villagey south London suburb has been making all the right news lately and prompted a WHLondon visit to check out its attractions. With the Oru Space Cafe in East Dulwich winning the Best Cafe award at the Good Food Awards […]
Chelsea Physic Garden: Celebrating 350 Years in Paint and Print Exhibition Denise Ballard-Wyllie’s artist residency at the Chelsea Physic Garden was a horticultural match made in heaven. In this interview, she shares how her painter-printmaker practice suffuses her love of nature – hence, the expressively refashioned landscapes that often feature in her work. A […]
London’s First Wild Ponds In Centuries Expected in 2029! East London Waterworks Park campaign for wild swimming ponds and biodiverse park reaches Crowdfunder target The East London Waterworks Park community group describe themselves as dream-builders and world-builders. Their dream of building a Green New World along the River Lea draws ever closer now they […]
Women Filmmakers Triumph At Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest, London At the first-ever UK festival dedicated to the surreal and uncanny, filmmaker Rocio Rocha from Argentina wins the trophy for Best Film as her experimental short The Inhabitants Of Me wows the judges. Lisa Battocchio from Italy wins the coveted Best Director category for her […]
London’s Architecture: An Understated Post-Pandemic Attraction UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keen to resurrect the nation’s tourism industry and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, for once, agrees. This bipartisan stance is not a surprise given the dire facts and figures about the dwindling arts, culture and heritage sectors during the pandemic. A key driver […]
Artist Denise Wyllie captures the DNA discoveries of Rosalind Franklin in powerful mixed media work that celebrates an unsung science pioneer. James Watson and Francis Crick are revered in the scientific community for their discoveries on the structure of DNA, however, their work would not have been possible without the pioneering work of British chemist […]
No winter snow as yet and the icy January chill isn’t as biting as decades past, but it’s still time for the overcoats and woolies. It’s unlikely Britain will see the likes of the Big Freeze of 1963, with global warming now an established scientific fact but some of the great artists captured the spirit […]
With over 2.27 million objects, the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington is recognised as a world leader in collections of applied and decorative arts and design, but did you know it also has the world’s first museum restaurant? Its three opulently decorated Victorian ‘Refreshment Rooms’ were built in the 1850s and 60s, timed to […]
It’s a remarkable legacy to have completed only 15 paintings (known to be in existence) yet still be recognised as one of the greatest artists in history. This extraordinary polymath has produced work that survives today as undoubted cultural icons and his early working life in Milan provided the apprenticeship for much of these works […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
