Marcus Harvey
Drawing? That’s what my kids do – Marcus Harvey
Category: Artwork
Seated nude woman
Japanese ink and acrylic on paper
Café Culture, Camberwell
Café Culture in Camberwell is the cheap nosh hub for Camberwell Art College students.
This is another obstruction picture – where the thing blocking the thing becomes the thing. Not long after, the petrol station in the background was razed and a tremendously ugly student accommodation block was put there. The irony of such ugliness was not wasted on some of the students and staff at Camberwell Art College next door – being built next to the eccentric looking ‘brutalist’ college, which in turn is built next to an earnestly provincial Arts & Crafts block. This new build, like so much other modern architecture, ignores its surroundings and just sits there as popular and congruous as a turd in a bed. There’s no sky left.
Seated woman in leopard print
Pencil and watercolour on postcard
Du Cane Court, Balham (obstruction)
Balham, gateway to the south – as Peter Sellers once said. Du Cane Court, with its own interesting history.
This is an obstruction sketch. It happens all the time in London and other cities especially, where something very lovely is obstructed by a post, a sign, a bastardised phonebox cum cash machine. The elegant rhythmic Art Deco lines of Du Cane Court interrupted by comically placed street furniture.
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott would have been amused to see his K6 phone box shape, designed in 1935, modified in this way. Du Cane Court was built two years later, in 1937.
Anyway, here’s an obstruction sketch: When the thing that’s in the way of the thing becomes the thing.
I have to stop writing now because Apple’s US-centric auto spell keeps changing Du Cane to Duane.
Cappuccino
Outside at Pullens.