What I've discovered about this building is that it keeps on telling. It speaks of an architect who was inspired by his own town and community to create a building in harmony with the spaces around it.
We sit beside the porch and take in the churchyard. Whilst we rest, billows of dust plume out of the porch entrance. The dust-busters are in.
Pure Scroll....
Pure scroll...
A sneak peek of my book.. A few years ago I was tasked with providing a Photography Masterclass workshop at Stowe House in Buckinghamshire. Instead of taking the usual camera and equipment focused route, I took the unusual step of focusing on new ways of seeing and experiencing architecture. The...
Drystone walls and Amazonian Forests
I see the pattern of the universe everywhere: in the marbling of a countertop, in the bobbing flower heads of a summer meadow, in the dust kicked up by the flick of a fish tail. Apparently, the patterns that appeal to us most are those that have natural forms. We...
Genius Loci
Spirit of a Place Exhibition. Bury Art Museum. On until April 2022. When people look back upon our time, I think that one of the defining phrases to describe our generation might be ‘the era of detachment.’ Perhaps it’s too harsh a description, but there is a growing sense...