The Whisky Event brings together some of the finest producers and enthusiasts in central London later this month. Held in the ballroom at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, it is set to be one of the highlights of the year.
Romania can count back in millennia, when it comes to experience in wine making; in fact it has one of the world’s oldest winemaking traditions and is even one of the world’s largest producers.
Frippy Jameson (born 1978), who now lives and works in the Scottish Borders, studied Fine Art Sculpture at Camberwell College of Art and Design, but, as she explains when telling her own story, she didn’t follow the mood of that moment in the early nineties, when YBAs such as Hirst and Emin were generating all the critical excitement, controversy and headlines, with their conceptual new art.
Daniel Crane, born in Norfolk in 1969, is the youngest son of a farming family, always surrounded by animals and the countryside, with a respect and love for them both.
A tenth solo show celebrates one of the world’s most admired and collected equestrian artists. Joie de vivre, draughtsmanship, and brilliant colour in the paintings of Hubert de Watrigant shine out of thirty new works at Osborne Studio Gallery, in London’s Belgravia.
Madeleine Bunbury, (born 1997) is a travelling equestrian portrait painter, classically trained in Florence; available for private commissions anywhere in the world she paints life size horses, directly from life, under a natural north light. She does not use photographs, but devised her own creative process to keep her subjects comfortable during the hours of posing ‘Sometimes 1 have to whisper to them a little’ A portrait can take as many as ten sessions.
Clementine spent the past two years setting up her outdoor studio in some of the most cherished destinations in the world.
When she finds an inspiring scene there is a vigorous freshness in every brushstroke.
Gothic, classical, pre-Raphaelite, Brompton cemetery in west London, one of the capital’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries that is set in the shadows of Chelsea FC’s stadium and a short stroll from Earl’s Court, has it all in terms of vistas, incredible stories and living legacies of human endeavour in the arts, commerce, politics, medicine, science, sport and military service.
With power and passion, Noalia depicts Spanish tradition: horses flying off the canvas, mighty ‘toros’ (fighting bulls), and the vibrant ‘Gallo’ (cockerel) King of the Farmyard. He attempts to describe his unique, impulsive creative process.
City hypes and types gathered at Haberdashers’ Hall in London’s Smithfield area this October at the annual MondoVisione exchange forum, hearing from experts on topics ranging from cybersecurity, the impact of Brexit, moves in green finance as well as digital transformation and innovation - all offering insight to the world of tomorrow.
