Good evening: to the Georgian Group to give a lecture on Vanbrugh’s country houses: always a pleasure to think about these places of wonder and delight: warmest wishes.
Good evening: the glorious neo wren west end of Selwyn College Chapel: warmest wishes.
Good evening: evensong at Sidney Sussex, in its very handsome Chapel designed and built 1910-12 by T.H.Lyon; anthem, ‘Give us the Wings of Faith’, by Ernest Bullock; warmest wishes.
Good evening: delighted to have a meeting in the V&A on Friday - Cast Court in all its glory: study the greats! Warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: 1740s Kirtlington Park Oxfordshire today with the conservation stars of the future the 2026 SPAB Lethaby/Plunket Scholars talking about their study plans with Nick Cox and Pip Sooden (taking the picture!) we are posed in front of one
Good morning: the dazzling chancel of Burges’s Christ the Consoler, Newby: warmest wishes.
Good evening: Extraordinary details in Christ the Consoler Church at Newby in Yorkshire, designed by W.B.Burges, as rich and ornate as can be: warmest wishes.
Good morning: glorious Newby Hall: warmest wishes.
Good morning: to glorious Newby Hall to celebrate the outstanding and imaginative restoration of the Rockery - a complete delight: bravo Lucinda and the Newby Hall team: warmest wishes.
Good evening: to Scarborough to spend time in Wood End the house where Sir George Sitwell really grew up; his presence can be felt in his characteristic improvements to the interiors - very much a community hub these days with start up offices for th
Good morning: dogs in art at The Fitzwilliam Museum - oh yes and the signature of Veronese: warmest wishes.
Good morning: last night to the opening of the Garden Museum’s brilliant exhibition an evocation of the world of Benton End, Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines: warmest wishes.
Good morning: a portrait of Richard Fitzwilliam, Viscount Fitzwilliam, by Joseph Wright of Derby; Lord Fitzwilliam was the man who made the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge possible: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: early morning walk in the cool and still musing on the glorious treasures of the Fitzwilliam seen yesterday with the George Washington Foundation: and a special nod to Vuillard’s Parson Jack Russell spotted for the first time: w
Good morning: wonderful day yesterday with the George Washington Foundation on a small part of their summer tour of Britain (organised by Argosy tours) punting, tour of Fitzwilliam, guided walks by myself and more, a really great fun day: warmest wis
Good morning: a glorious day to visit the breathtaking ruins of 12th century Llanthony Priory (a former house of Augustinian Canons) - warmest wishes.
Good morning: enjoying a visit to the sheer wonderment of Llantony Priory: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: in Herefordshire for Hay Literary Festival (rather dominated by questions of the future of democracy etc, missing hearing from the hopeful young novelists who seem in shorter supply?) but heavenly views from the farmhouse where we are
Good morning: happy to have celebrated graduation with my NYU London MA students at The Stationers Hall, London; (and some on line) - here with Camille in person: congratulations and good luck to them all: warmest wishes.
Good morning: a wonderful sketch after Rodin by our visiting sculptor, Rufus Martin: warmest wishes