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Throwing light on Art

TM Lighting

(Before) The East Gallery, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust). Photo Paul Barker © Paul Barker

(Before) The East Gallery, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust).
Photo Paul Barker © Paul Barker

 

(After)The East Gallery, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust). Photo Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

(After)The East Gallery, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust).
Photo Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

 

 

 

 

Visitors to Waddesdon Manor this year will notice that the paintings have been re-lit most effectively and this is due to the specialist lighting company TM Lighting who have worked on this project. Founded in 2012 by Andrew Molyneux and Harry Triggs who have twenty years combined experience in lighting design, TM Lighting can transform homes and commercial spaces showing them to greater advantage.  Their approach takes into account both the current energy-saving legislation and the environmental factors of the space they are lighting.

Private Commissions: Marcus Lyon’s Studio

Private Commissions: Marcus Lyon’s Studio

The company provides a bespoke service using the very latest LED technology to achieve the correct light distribution which as these images confirm works wonderfully well in bringing both the art and the rooms into focus. Miranda Rock, Guardian of Burghley House, says of their work in lighting the notable collection of paintings at Burghley that “they are not over-lit and the atmosphere of the house has not been compromised”. LED bulbs are cooler than halogen ones and last much longer.

Burghley House

Burghley House

 

New Masters Exhibition by Darwin, Sinke & Van Tongeren at Jamb and exclusively lit by TM Lighting CREDIT: Ilvy Njiokiktjien

New Masters Exhibition by Darwin, Sinke & Van Tongeren at Jamb and exclusively lit by TM Lighting
CREDIT: Ilvy Njiokiktjien

Among other clients TM lighting have worked for are Weston Park House, Apsley House, the National Gallery, Goodwood, Hampton Court Palace and Armourers’ Hall. They also work with private collectors, dealers and other commercial businesses.  I hope you will agree that they are really rather good at what they do.

Commercial Commission: Fera at Claridges Hotel

Commercial Commission: Fera at Claridges Hotel

 

Apsley House

Apsley House

 

 

 

 

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(Before) The Dining Room, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust). Photo Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

(Before) The Dining Room, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust).
Photo Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

 

(After) The Dining Room, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust). Photo Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

(After) The Dining Room, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust).
Photo Mike Fear © The National Trust, Waddesdon Manor

The Empress and the Gardener

The Empress and the Gardener, Hampton Court Palace, Hampton Court, Surrey KT8 9AU, until 4th September 2016

The West Front of Hampton Court Palace © State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The West Front of Hampton Court Palace
© State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

This is a fine exhibition which combines ‘Capability’ Brown’s role as gardener to King George III and Catherine the Great’s love of things English.  The sixty watercolours and drawings on show reveal the gardens of Hampton Court as they were when Brown was in charge of them but ironically he did not transform them out of respect to these who had created these Baroque-style gardens.

The Privy Garden © State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Privy Garden
© State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

In Russia Catherine had created an ‘English palace’ and ‘English Park’ but lacked a gardener of Brown’s capabilities. However seeing an opportunity Brown’s assistant John Spyers sold two albums of his drawings which he had removed from Brown’s house at Hampton Court to the Empress for a thousand roubles. A huge amount for images that did not show any of Brown’s work and the drawings were lost in the Hermitage collections until their rediscovery in 2002.

The Fountain in the East Front Garden © State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

The Fountain in the East Front Garden
© State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Other items on show include portraits of Brown and the Empress, drawings of her English Palace and pieces from the famous Wedgwood Frog Service, made for the Empress, which depict some of the famous English landscapes Brown created.

Portrait of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, by Richard Cosway (C) Private Collection - Bridgeman Images

Portrait of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, by Richard Cosway
(C) Private Collection – Bridgeman Images

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East South Front © State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

East South Front
© State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show: Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU, 5th – 10th July 2016

 

Le Clos d'Hastings ©Stéphane Marie.

Le Clos d’Hastings
©Stéphane Marie.

 World Gardens are a major theme at this year’s show with six gardens reflecting their particular part of the globe and bringing a flavour of why these are popular travel destinations.

The Oregon Garden, The Charleston Garden and The Austin Garden bring these differing areas very much to life while Journey Latin America’s Inca Garden celebrates the Incas and evokes the excitement Hiram Bingham must have felt in 1911 on discovering the lost Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.  Europe is celebrated in The Route of the Camellia Garden a route which took pilgrims through Galicia on their way to the shrine of St James at Santiago de Compostela.  The last historic garden is the ‘Le Clos d’Hastings’ – 1066 Country Medieval Garden. 

Designed by Stephane Marie, this garden which marks the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings is a joint collaboration between the Parks and Gardens of Normandy and the District of Hastings.  It consists of two sections one recalling medieval meadows with barley, flax, marguerites and wildflowers while the other more densely planted section is a riot of plants from around the world which both the Normans and English enjoy today, united by their shared love of botany and gardening.

It won a Bronze!

 

 

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RHS show information: http://www.rhs.org.uk/shows

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