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| 16 and 17 Cheyne Walk, London |
It was good to see so many people at yesterday's sketchcrawl around Battersea – including new faces as well as the familiar ones. It was a good mix of subjects, too: as well as a great expanse of the river and Albert Bridge, there was historic and modern architecture. Above is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house in Cheyne Walk. (It's actually the house to the right of the tree – the visible blue plaque is on the house once lived in by Thomas Attwood, a pupil of Mozart and St Paul's organist. There must be more blue plaques in this row than anywhere in London. Brunel lived in a house here, Turner died in one, and George Eliot lived further along. And there are many more besides.)
Across the river on the Battersea side are the offices of the architects Foster and Partners. They designed Albion Riverside, the neighbouring development with curvy-lined balconies overlooking the Thames and Cheyne Walk opposite. It was a good day's drawing, although I seemed to spend more time talking than drawing. We all met up at the end of the day at Doodle Bar on Parkgate Road to look at what we'd all done. There was some great work. Well done to Isabel for organising the day.
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| Albion Riverside, Battersea |
By Albert Bridge
love your albion riverside, perfect!
ReplyDeleteI do like these drawings so very much. The viewed architecture is so different, and yet your pen has got them both captured. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Evelyn and Frances. Actually, I think the Riverside image particularly is a bit of a mess, but it doesn't really seem to matter.
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