Totally Thames 2020
Totally Thames 2020 is back celebrating the river at the heart of the city, which connects us to places far and wide. Now in its 24th year, Totally Thames is one of the world’s most important river festivals. As part of this summer’s reimagined festival, there will be an exciting new Totally Thames online hub […]
Honorato Del Hierro
A Brilliant, modest, and with a great sense of humour, Honorato del Hierro is an artist with an eclectic career behind him, including IT Engineer and local Chief of Police, but the constant in his life has been painting. As he says, “I just have to paint.” Now a highly recognised artist in the region, […]
The Last Man
Simon Norfolk photographs the naked soul of London. The COVID-19 Visual Project is a virtual exhibition created by the Tuscan based Art Festival Cortona on the Move and designed to bare witness to the changing world with the onset and spread of coronavirus across the world. The work across a range of photographers in […]
Hidden Figures
In the midst of the racial tension currently filling our world with such conflict and turmoil, I found it a delightful coincidence to be asked to watch and review a film that shines a spotlight on black struggles, in turn allowing me to appreciate the efforts and difficulties that my people faced back some decades […]
Alfie Bowen
Recognised as one of the most talented young wildlife photographers in the scene, Alfie Bowen’s art comes from the tenderness of his soul and the sharpness of his mind, which allow him to see and appreciate details that most of us would miss. Diagnosed with autism as a child, he was bullied and ostracised in […]
Cristina Mittermeier
Rewriting the manual for planet Earth This is the year of social distancing and remote living, in which we feel a global common purpose to beat a virus that is sweeping the world. Therefore conservation has become an afterthought as we concentrate on our own immediate survival. But, what happens in the aftermath? What lessons […]
Aldis Hodge
(Opening photo taken by @Briana Hodge Photography) As a parent, you often hear stories of those overachieving kids who play several instruments, do well in school and are captain of their sports team, putting your progeny and your skills as a parent to shame. Well, Aldis Hodge is one of those. The son of US […]
Lessons From a Small Country
This book is being published as finally, the world feels ready to come out of the lockdown imposed to control the spread of Covid-19, a pandemic that has unfortunately taken many lives, but has also given us the opportunity, as the author Jane Davidson puts it, “To capitalize on our rediscovered kindness and sense of […]
Sam’s Riverside Hosts Two Celebrity Online Quiz Nights
Good news at last! One of our favourite riverside restaurateurs has come up with an ingenious plan to keep us sane and entertained. While we wait with anticipation for Sam and his incredible team to reopen their doors, we have Quiz night. Personally I can’t wait. Drawing on his impressive address book and a few […]
London Art Week Summer 2020 Goes Digital
(Opening photo: An extract from “Two Amazonian Horned Frogs”, 1884, watercolour, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art) Between the 3rd and 10th of July, the public will be able to attend London Art Week using an innovative online platform. This (Two Amazonian Horned Frogs) image, taken from a series of environmentally inspired works called Drawn to Nature: […]
