
LondonLife
LondonLife – Scenes from Chelsea…
The Chelsea Flower Show returned to London this week with King Charles III making his first visit to the show as monarch and tributes in honour of his coronation and the passing of Queen Elizabeth II last year. The show runs until 27th May. For more, see www.rhs.org.uk/chelsea.






LondonLife – The Tower and City of London from another angle…

LondonLife – Coronation preparations…






LondonLife – Rush hour, St Pancras…

LondonLife – Rehearsing the Coronation Procession…





LondonLife – Taking flight…

LondonLife – Shad Thames walkways…

In Bermondsey. PICTURE: Nicolas Lysandrou/Unsplash
LondonLife – Ending looms for ‘Executions’ at Museum of London Docklands…

Museum of London Docklands’ major exhibition, Executions, has less than a month to run, closing on 16th April. This week sees a special late opening on Friday night (24th March) with a candlelit evening featuring screenings, pop-up talks and tours. There will be execution ballads sung live and a selection of exhibition-inspired drinks available as visitors have the chance to explore some of London’s grisly past before the doors clang shut for good. For more, see www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-london-docklands/whats-on/exhibitions/executions.


LondonLife – Buses on Piccadilly…

LondonLife – Van de Veldes inspiration at Greenwich…

British artist Finn Campbell-Notman has been named as the winner of the Sky Arts’ Landscape Artist of the Year for his creation of a contemporary seascape inspired by the work of 17th century marine painters, Willem van de Velde the Elder and his son, Willem van de Velde the Younger. Campbell-Notman’s work, Fail We May, Sail We Must, has gone on display at the Queen’s House in Greenwich which is currently hosting the new exhibition, The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea. The new painting was inspired by Campbell-Notman’s personal experience as he found out more about the Van de Veldes while travelling in The Netherlands. “My approach to landscape painting is that a painting is rarely, if ever, a direct transcription from a single view, even those painted en plein air,” Campbell-Notman said in a statement. “One composes and constructs, simplifies, rearranges and perhaps adds certain elements to create a picture. The finished painting is thus a record of a dialogue with what is seen and what is reflected within and want I to transmit; between what is seen and what is felt.” For more, see www.rmg.co.uk/queens-house.
LondonLife – Cycling in Clapham…

LondonLife – Somerset House goes for a ‘Whorl’…

A new art installation – Jitish Kallat’s Whorled (Here After Here After Here) – has been unveiled at Somerset House. The work, located in the Edmond J Safra Fountain Court, is more than 30 metres in diameter and comprises two intersecting spirals that represent a “seismic ripple” or a galactic whorl which spirals outwards from the centre of the courtyard. The work, which draws upon sacred geometry and alchemical diagrams, features two 168 metre scrolls which follows the visual language of UK motorway signage. As visitors walk through the spirals, they are taken on a journey past signs indicating the distance from Somerset House to more than 300 locations across the planet and beyond including celestial bodies, such as the Moon, Mars, and distant stars in the Milky Way. The installation is free to see until 23rd April.


LondonLife – London writ large…

A celebration of the artists who have painted London on a monumental scale, The Big City is currently running at the Guildhall Art Gallery. The exhibition, which runs until 23rd April, can be visited on a ‘pay what you can’ basis. For more, see www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/events/the-big-city.


LondonLife – Southbank skating…

The Southbank Skatepark.
LondonLife – Eye view…

Looking south from the London Eye down the River Thames over County Hall and Westminster Bridge.
LondonLife – Tooting Bec Common dressed in white…

PICTURE: Colin White/Unsplash
LondonLife – Bright lights, big city…

View of the Docklands from North Greenwich.
10 most popular posts for 2022 – Numbers 10 and 9…
It’s that time of year again – our annual countdown of our 10 most read posts for the year!
First up are numbers nine and ten…