art-beat

Some little nuggets from in and around Brentford and Isleworth. St Paul's church, Brentford The tower with its tall spire remains from...

Wilderness House in Hampton was home to England's greatest gardener and landscape architect, Capability Brown, (no, not Monty Don), for...

There’s a phrase you'd probably prefer didn't appear in your school report. It was something the English teacher of the subject on whom...

Friday, May 15th. This is Wilderness House in Hampton, home to England's greatest gardener and landscape architect, Capability Brown,...

This splendid looking one-time fire station was built for £3,000 in 1896/7 at 55 High Street in Brentford, on land bought from the Parish...

When he wasn’t hanging out in his seaside retreat in Eastbourne, Tommy Cooper lived in this house in Chiswick from 1955 until he died in...

Aware that one way I’m trying to stay sane during these strange times is by gluing daily cycle rides together through gathering and...

Oh the smell. Or was it more about the growing lack of privacy, as he perceived it? Perhaps these things were linked as Alfred, Lord...

Virginia Woolf lived here at Hogarth House, Paradise Road^ In Richmond. with her husband Leonard for about nine years from 1915, (when...

Looking south-west from Richmond Hill as the River Thames snakes off into the distance. Beautiful. But very different to what some...

Here in Teddington cemetery, with his wife Lucy Maguire who died a couple of years earlier, lies romantic English novelist, or how he...

... and much more. And it's still going. Located in St. Margarets, Twickenham Film Studios have been used for some well known film and TV...

Bit of a harsh reflection on a man’s expectations of his local community. Perhaps more an echo of times past, around the period that the...

Born here, at 131 Waldegrave Road, Teddington in 1899, the plaque omits to mention Noel Coward only lived at this address until he was...

Home to England rugby. The Core Values Statue stands outside the home to England rugby The statue was unveiled in June 2010 by pop artist...

Van Gogh first arrived in England at the age of 20 in 1873. Barely three years later, by the end of 1876, he had left never to return,...

Built by King William III, this ice house is located in Hampton Court’s Home Park, and dates from the late 17th Century. Ice was gathered...

A few years ago I was surprised to learn that for about thirteen years the English Romantic artist J. M. W. Turner had a modest country...

I've seen the best and the worst of people during these challenging times of constraint and social distancing. Some wonderfully kind...

Continuing with the music theme from yesterday, and using the name by which the location is better known, Eel Pie Island in Twickenham...