ARTIST NOT IN RESIDENCE

Caspar Hall is a great painter who works in the next door space to our office - currently he is somewhere in the Middle East - doing strange things in dangerous conditions [so we hear].

easel at ease

Haile Selassie and Ayatollah Khomeini from a series of heroes and villains [one mans hero is another mans villain]

discarded works

discarded works appropriated to sit in front of my desk

SPRING IS SPRUNG

our japanese red maple is coming to life against a wall of staffordshire blue bricks

CHARLES KRAFFT

This artist is news to us at Hiscox Parladé though we have seen his porcelain hand grenade...but with more of these in the world there would be less trouble than the metal originals cause

ANOTHER 70's ODDBALL

You wait ages for a fibreglass building to come along and then 2 come at once...... I drove past this dentist practice in Acton...just as dilapidated as the vanessa - maybe we can specialise

VANESSA SCHOOL

A brilliant nursery school in need of TLC - built in the early 70's by The Vanessa Redgrave Eucational Trust using fibreglass panels and traverse trusses - materials that are not available at the local builders merchant

GURU #3 - OSCAR NIEMEYER

Extension to Listed Building

small project on a north facing elevation ..trying..to get light into the basement - replacing a concrete balcony and timber extension with a glass structure

OLYMPIC PORTAKABIN?

We are looking for gaskets like this for a window like this.... any ideas?

Rotring

I stopped using rotrings in 1989.... I feel the desire coming back after 20years.. above is a 50's rotring and a drawing  of a motorcycle boardtrack supported by giant pushrods mounted in a tappet block. The track went through the bathroom of a suburban house so I could say hello to my then girlfriend [who was always in the bath] - this was my second year of studies and clearly I didnt have to worry about much.

HEAVY METAL

Photos by Lior Kristal