I did a couple of sketches in Bruton Street this week on the way over to see Jon Savage’s photos of Ladbroke Grove in the late 70’s at Maggs Counterculture.
http://www.maggs.com/book_collecting/maggs_journal/savage-and-said/
Category Archives: London
Songlines
These drawings were done one Saturday afternoon in June, 2011 during Songlines Magazine’s Encounters Festival at Kings Place in Kings Cross. Pencil on A5 paper. Continue reading Songlines
Soho, September 2011
I took advantage of sunny September weather to hang out in the seedy yet strangely exotic, Soho.
There’s an energy in Soho unlike any other quarter that is generated partly by the tourists and day trippers that circulate in search of entertainment.
Not that people feature much in these drawings.
Deptford Creek
A walk along Creekside, Deptford, 2010
Royal Wedding
Kate Middleton’s Wedding, London 2011.
Westminster Abbey, Horseguard’s Parade, The Mall & Buckingham Palace. (A5)
March Against Cuts
Anti-Cuts Demonstration, London, 31st June 2011 (A4)
City of London
A walk through the City towards Smithfield. 2010 (A4).
Jungle Un Fair
A walk around the perimeter fence of a Fun Fair on Clapham Common. 2011
Scary Trees.
Is it me, or do these trees look like they have faces? Dante might have been on to something when he suggested that the spirits of suicides inhabit trees.
General Election
The day after the 2010 General Election I went down to Parliament to see what was going on. The media had set up camp to watch the process that would eventually lead to a coalition government being formed. The green outside Parliament is an interesting place at these times with spin doctors and news anchors rubbing shoulders with the tramps and nutters that are the green’s everyday population.