LONDON LUNCHTIMES

Discovered a few weeks back, (when Sian is currently redecorating the hallway) a small A6 sized sketchbook stuffed at the back of a bookcase. Inside the sketchbook drawings of London, Bloomsbury and Soho areas of town, in pen and ink.

Presumably made during my lunch breaks at the time


'If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting' - J.M. Barrie

FLORAL RIDE

Quite wonderful it is to ride out on a Saturday morning for sixty minutes through the lanes and woods here about. This time of year the flowers of the Chilterns are at the almost end but still evident and I stop and stand my bike in the hedgerow to make some drawings.

ROUTE MAP

Those nice people at the American Express Travel Office give such useful detail
Here was my latest trip. Map is author's own.

Fri, May 11 BRITISH AIRWAYS, BA 0155

From: LONDON HEATHROW, UNITED KINGDOM (LHR)

Departs: 6:15pm Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 5

 To: CAIRO, EGYPT (CAI)

Arrives: 11:55pm Arrival Terminal: TERMINAL 1 

Aircraft: BOEING 777 JET

Distance (in Miles): 2187 Duration: 4hour(s) and 40minute(s)

Tue, May 15 SINGAPORE AIRLINES, SQ 0493

 From: CAIRO, EGYPT (CAI)

Departs: 2:10pm Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 3

 To: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMI (DXB)

Arrives: 7:50pm Arrival Terminal: TERMINAL 1

Aircraft: BOEING 777 JET

Distance (in Miles): 1499 Duration: 3hour(s) and 40minute(s)

Tue, May 15 - Wed, May 16 Flights: EMIRATES, EK 0512

 From: DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMI (DXB)

Departs: 10:10pm - Tue, May 15 Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 3

 To: DELHI, INDIA (DEL)

Arrives: 2:45am - Wed, May 16 Arrival Terminal: TERMINAL 3

Aircraft: BOEING 777 JET

Distance (in Miles): 1368 Duration: 3hour(s) and 5minute(s)

Thu, May 17 Flights: AIR INDIA LTD., AI 0805 From: DELHI, INDIA (DEL)

Departs: 8:00pm Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 3

 To: MUMBAI, INDIA (BOM)

Arrives: 10:10pm Arrival Terminal: TERMINAL 1 DOMESTIC

Aircraft: AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A319 JET

Distance (in Miles): 0708 Duration: 2hour(s) and 10minute(s)

 

Sun, May 20 Flights: SINGAPORE AIRLINES, SQ 0421

From: MUMBAI, INDIA (BOM) Departs: 7:30am

 Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 2 INTERNATIONAL

 To: SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE (SIN) Arrives: 3:25pm

Aircraft: BOEING 777 JET

Distance (in Miles): 2437 Duration: 5hour(s) and 25minute(s)

Thu, May 24 - Fri, May 25 Flights: BRITISH AIRWAYS, BA 7311

From: SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE (SIN)

Departs: 11:59pm - Thu, May 24

 Departure Terminal: TERMINAL 1

 To: LONDON HEATHROW, UNITED KINGDOM (LHR)

Arrives: 6:35am - Fri, May 25

Arrival Terminal: TERMINAL 3 Aircraft: AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A380-800 JET

Distance (in Miles): 6748 Duration: 13hour(s) and 36minute(s)

HE WHO SEES THE PIPER HEARS THE TUNE

I was very fortunate to discover a host of treasures at the Dorchester Abbey this past weekend.  JOHN PIPER and THE CHURCH surveyed 70 years of his output. This show of delights was rammed into an impossibly small space in the South Transept. I would have moved some other stuff out to make more room.

A bonus was one of the Brass Bands rehearsing as part of the English Music Festival, more precisely the Jaguar Land Rover Band with Dave Lea Conducting. This was an extra treat for me, before heading home, full of Mr. Piper.

LIFE’S UPS AND DOWNS

Have gone to Life Drawing on and off the last twenty odd years you get to know when a particular session is just not going to go well. Those times when you just cannot put a line down right, and the situation grows worse. Going round and looking at everyone else’s works at the tea break helps little. Time to wash brushes and palette, swear under one’s breath and move on.

It maybe all in the mind, and ‘all in the mind’ might be the definition of drawing anyway.

THAT’S LIFE

MONDRIAN || NICHOLSON: IN PARALLEL

I was lucky enough to just get to the Courtauld to see exhibition explores the largely untold relationship between Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson during the 1930s. At this time the two artists were leading abstract art in Europe.

Nicholson and Mondrian's friendship culminated with Mondrian moving to London in 1938, at Nicholson's invitation, where they worked in neighbouring Hampstead studios at the centre of a community of the avant-garde.