Good evening: thrilled this week to have finally seen - in the flesh - one of the country house triumphs of our age: the Castle Howard tapestry drawing room, as refitted to an original but highly sympathetic design by Francis Terry - it’s a gre
Good afternoon: Vanbrugh’s homage to Palladio at Castor Howard Yorkshire: warmest wishes.
Good evening: today I connected with the Vanbrugh mothership of Castle Howard: it is this view which unlocked my vision of Vanbrugh’s brilliance: full immersion architecture that moves with the viewer like the shutter on a theatre set: warmest
Good morning: Cambridge skies - warmest wishes.
Good evening: on a research visit to the NPG’s late seventeenth century collection last week my eye was caught by this 1670s portrait of Isaac Barrow by the remarkable David Loggan, graphite on vellum: warmest wishes.
Good morning: yes still thinking about Venice a week later and wondering when I can go back: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: to the NPG to catch up on the Kit Kat Club portraits by Kneller - this is Sir Richard Steele founder of the Tattler and the spectator magazines: he looks familiar!
Good morning: another glimpse of the Regatta Storica in Venice on Sunday - the men’s division rowing into the setting sun: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: gondoliers at rest - reminded me of a Whistler painting: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: it seems so long ago already- but last Sunday we attended mass at San Marco, Venice: warmest wishes.
Good morning: hidden corners - Venice - back door to the Palazzo: warmest wishes.
Good evening: enjoying seeing some of the rowing races of the Regatta Storica- women’s division: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: Venice’s annual Regata Storica a splendid pageant followed by rowing races: a charming sight: warmest wishes.
Good morning: Torcello fragments on a wall: warmest wishes.
Good evening: yes it’s a good evening- Venice at twilight: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: on the way back from lunch on the way to tea back on the mainland, nodding to San Giorgio Maggiore from the boat: warmest wishes.
Good morning: catching the waterbus to our lunch engagement in Torcello: warmest wishes.
Good evening: joyful to visit Venice again after a gap of too many years - so much beauty: warmest wishes.
Good afternoon: to Madingley Hall today for a beautiful memorial event for philosopher Prof Arthur Gibson - polymath, poet and ‘always smiling’, he will be much missed, proud to have known him as a friend: warmest wishes.
Good evening Cambridge: warmest wishes.