Toyosi Saliu Makes a Solid Gold Statement With Breathtaking 24-Carat Art From the heart of the African continent but firmly rooted in London, rises an exciting new artist whose work bridges African identity and ancestral royalty with modern elegance. Nigerian artist Toyosi Saliu uses real 24-carat gold to craft dazzling portraits that bring a […]
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? How Gauguin’s visit to London in 1885 helped clear up an existential crisis 140 years ago, French artist Paul Gauguin set off on a get-away-from-it-all visit to London. This visit marked a watershed moment in his life – he had split from […]
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Toyosi Saliu Makes a Solid Gold Statement With Breathtaking 24-Carat Art From the heart of the African continent but firmly rooted in London, rises an exciting new artist whose work bridges African identity and ancestral royalty with modern elegance. Nigerian artist Toyosi Saliu uses real 24-carat gold to craft dazzling portraits that bring a […]
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The Southbank Centre Winter Festival was a pop-up feast for fast food hordes who were after something a little bit special beyond your average wings and fries. It’s inevitable after visiting the festival’s Christmas stalls along the Thames and taking the kids to the centrepiece Merry-go-Round that those gastronomical desires will pick up as those […]
Fresh off of the Taste of London Festival 2016, Pulp Wines is reaching out to discerning wine-lovers with their new wine tasting programme. We asked the marketing team at Pulp Wines a few questions about their company and a very unique approach to choosing your favourite wine. Q. Could you tell us a little about […]
With Monday’s Supreme Court meeting to rule whether the government must consult Parliament before implementing Brexit, hopefully this may spark your interest in visiting the UK’s seat of power. European tourists must be chomping at the bit to have first hand experience of the corridors of power which may have a say on their relations […]
Britain’s greatest architect Sir Christopher Wren conceived of St Paul’s Cathedral in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 which ravaged the capital. He drew up plans to resurrect a city which had only just recovered from the Plague, intending the cathedral as its centrepiece. Few people know that his skills were self taught […]
Jewellery-makers, photographers, artists, sculptors, printers, and earthenware craftsmen were among the variety of stall-holders showcasing their work at The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair which runs this weekend Nov 26-27 at The Candid Arts Trust in Angel.
Taste of London 2016 hailing itself as The World’s Greatest Restaurant Festival certainly brought together world-renowned chefs and the best of London restaurants offering samples of their latest exquisite food and drink products. Caviar champagne, wine and other gourmet delights from as far afield as Honduras ad the Far East. Not to be missed! November […]
If you didn’t catch the exhilarating South Korean horror movie Train to Busan at the cinemas recently you can always experience films from that part of the world at their indie roots – and on a more cerebral level. This film festival’s Mise-en-Scene 2 series of films was screened at the Korean Cultural Centre at […]
London has transformed throughout the centuries, at a pace that picked up dramatically during industrialisation as it became one of the world’s leading commercial centres. Throughout this period many notable painters, poets and writers tried to capture its essence in stunning works of tribute. However, the Great Artists often showed it as a barely distinguishable […]
All you amateur stargazers out there will no doubt know that today is the birthdate of Edmund Halley, the English astronomer who discovered the Halley’s Comet which is named after him. Born in 1656 in good old Haggerston, East London (Big up Hackney!) this genius of a man was also a geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and […]
Television Comes to London was the title of a documentary aired on the world’s first television service introduced by the pioneering British Broadcasting Company (BBC) on this day Nov 2nd in 1936. A more apt title might have been BBC Brings a Television Service to the World but no matter how ground-breaking this all was its […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
