Standard Designs Notes

Dinner Date

Dinner Date

A couple of recent sketches based on a fabulous piece of 1960s editorial photography.

Dinner Date

A couple of recent sketches based on a fabulous piece of 1960s editorial photography.

Painting by Beatriz Milhazes

Beatriz Milhazes at White Cube Bermondsey, Apri...

  Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes’ paintings never fail to lift the spirits with their powerful use of patterning and gutsy colour combinations. They’re pleasantly folk art-ish, and if you’re not...

Beatriz Milhazes at White Cube Bermondsey, Apri...

  Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes’ paintings never fail to lift the spirits with their powerful use of patterning and gutsy colour combinations. They’re pleasantly folk art-ish, and if you’re not...

Painting by Pablo Picasso at Tate Modern's 'Picasso 1932' exibition

Fun With Picasso In 1932

This is what it looks like when an artist at the top of their game takes their foot off the gas.

Fun With Picasso In 1932

This is what it looks like when an artist at the top of their game takes their foot off the gas.

Olive tree drawing by Simon James of Standard Designs Ltd

Drawing Notes

Some sketchbook drawings of an olive tree in the Standard Designs mansion’s Mediterranean Garden (situated just next to the Ezra Pound memorial bird bath). These drawings are in Conté crayon...

Drawing Notes

Some sketchbook drawings of an olive tree in the Standard Designs mansion’s Mediterranean Garden (situated just next to the Ezra Pound memorial bird bath). These drawings are in Conté crayon...

Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain

Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain

Notes on the Rachel Whiteread retrospective at Tate Britain Nice space (dividing walls removed). Too many pieces. Sight-lines too full up of other pieces (see (2) above). Difficult to concentrate...

Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain

Notes on the Rachel Whiteread retrospective at Tate Britain Nice space (dividing walls removed). Too many pieces. Sight-lines too full up of other pieces (see (2) above). Difficult to concentrate...

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Boom For Real at Barbican...

The Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the Barbican in London at the moment is kind of mid-sized and kind of mid-weight. It’s set over two floors. The upper floor, the one...

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Boom For Real at Barbican...

The Jean-Michel Basquiat show at the Barbican in London at the moment is kind of mid-sized and kind of mid-weight. It’s set over two floors. The upper floor, the one...