It’s blooming marvellous, the beautiful annual festival of floral art which took place between the 20th to 25th May 2019. It extends the RHS Chelsea Flower Show into the local neighbourhood. There were some impressive floral displays all made from real plants and flowers. Below I have listed my favourites although I didn’t get to…
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Dale Chihuly is an amazing artist and his stunning glass sculptures are dotted all over Kew gardens this summer. Kew Gardens is always a…
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May day was celebrated in Watford on the 6th May at Cassiobury park bandstand. It’s the traditional celebration for the start of spring but…
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April was a month of contrasts it started with a warm 1st week and the last week of the month, in the middle it…
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Cruising around the miniature railway as an 8 year old back in 1978 I remember this as a fond experience, roll on to 2019…
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Great to have the amazing Florist in Watford, the colourful bar/restaurant. It opened on the 22nd of April on a hot sunny Easter bank…
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Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery is one of those hidden places in Ealing that you stumble upon accidentally, it has just reopened after an extensive…
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The Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College is one place you must visit when you are in London, the amazing architecture and…
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It’s the month of great spurts of growth from blossoms to spring flowers but because of the warmth of February, we are 2 /3…
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English tourism week starts on the 30th March till 7th April, why not find something to visit or take part in a “microgap”. A “microgap”…
![Cindy Sherman created selfies before selfies became popular. Here she is depicting herself as a clown. She came up with the clown idea after 9/11. "So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and [clowns] have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy"
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#clowns #portraitphotography #DiscoverLSQ #CindySherman #igerslondon #visitlondon #londonlife #londonlive #london_forall #london_4all #london_only #london_enthusiast #timeoutlondon #hubs_united #traverselondon #colors_of_day #lo_mariekondo](http://scontent-frt3-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/89d5a8e4e803c3a13e7b4876552e2e58/5DC70513/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/c180.0.720.720a/s640x640/62513695_867261686975062_9119263621240194711_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frt3-1.cdninstagram.com "Cindy Sherman created selfies before selfies became popular. Here she is depicting herself as a clown. She came up with the clown idea after 9/11. \"So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and [clowns] have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy\"
Read more soon on my blog plus lots of photos on www.flickr.com/alalchan/albums
#clowns #portraitphotography #DiscoverLSQ #CindySherman #igerslondon #visitlondon #londonlife #londonlive #london_forall #london_4all #london_only #london_enthusiast #timeoutlondon #hubs_united #traverselondon #colors_of_day #lo_mariekondo")
