Fine Art Magazine - April 2018

KEITH ATHAY: LONDON CALLING Tower Bridge Presides During a trip to London in January, innovative collage artist Keith Athay embarked on an exciting new project. He sketched, photographed, acquired maps and researched local history and geography to build a portfolio of material to work from. Next, inspired by ‘London My Beautiful’, a poem by 20th century British poet F. S. Flint, he set about creating artwork to show the city of the past in a new way. He felt that post industrial revolution London was always portrayed as a place of gloom and smog, and he set himself the challenge of showing a different side to the city, as it might have appeared on the brighter, sunnier days. This superb collection of artwork represents the result of his labour of love, and we are thrilled to announce that Keith will be back in the capital soon, sketching on the banks of the Thames for his next collection. 48 GALLERY NEWS IN THE PICTURE