Ian Sidaway Studio Blog

I have started a new blog that will run alongside Fine Line. It documents on a monthly basis the Strawberry Hill studio and some of the work that is made there. It can be found at. www.iansidawaystudio.blogspot.co.uk 

Venice

"It is held by some that this word VENETIA signifies VENII ETIAM, that is, come again and again for however oft you come, you will always see new things, and new beauties."

(Jacopo Sansovino)

Venice...."A splendour of miscellaneous spirits."

(John Ruskin)

Paris

"I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood...I love her tenderly, even her warts and her spots."

(Michel de Montaigne)

"To me France always represented the Holy Land."

(Isak Dinesen. Letters from Africa.1914-1931)

Paris

"I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city...It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see."

(Katherine Mansfield)

"To err is human. To loaf is Parisian."

(Victor Hugo)

London

"I don't know what London's coming to-the higher the buildings the lower the morals."

(Noel Coward)

"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew-

Wanted to know what the river knew.

Twenty bridges or twenty two.

For they were young, and the Thames was old

And this is the tale that the river told."

(Rudyard Kipling)

London

"Go Where we may, rest where we will'

Eternal London haunts us still."

(Thomas Moore)

"Paris is a women but London is an independent man puffing on his pipe in a pub."

(Jack Kerouac. Lonesome Traveller)

The Painswick Yews

" Lets talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;

Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes

Write sorrow on the bosum of the earth,

Lets choose executors and talk of wills."

(William Shakespear. Richard III)

"Within its gates I heard the sound.

Of winds in cypress caverns caught

Of huddling trees that moaned and sought

To whisper what their roots had found."

(George Sterling. A dream of fear)

Richmond

"Rilke wrote: These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving spaces between them, as though their growth it too increased."

(Gaston Bachelard)

"Trees, how many of 'em do we need to look at ?"

(Ronald Regan)