LMS Annual Celebratory Artworks, 'Past & Present in London Town' by Linda Kitson, 2018

'Past and Present in London Town' - A signed, limited edition archival inkjet print by Linda Kitson, produced for the Lord Mayor's Show 2018. Printed at Coriander Studio, published by CCA Galleries.

CCA Galleries is delighted to continue our relationship with London's
Lord Mayors Show, the longest running procession in the world! Each year
the iconic CCA Art Bus takes part in the procession and we publish the
official artwork as a limited edition print. In 2018 artist Linda
Kitson made a print defining the show.

"Linda Kitson studied
at St. Martin’s School of Art and The Royal College of Art. Her ﬁrst
exhibition was of drawings of the wine chateaux of Bordeaux, but the
work which ﬁrst drew signiﬁcant public attention was when, as Ofﬁcial
War Artist, she accompanied the British Task Force to the Falkland
Islands.

Subsequent ventures, such as those to Canada and to
Thailand, produced suites of drawings that still had an aspect of
reportage. Linda Kitson also had successful exhibitions of landscape
drawings, generally produced as she describes it, by “clinging to the
side of a mountain” in France and Italy. She has also illustrated works
by Camus and St. Exupéry for the Folio Society.

Domestic
circumstances took her for several years out of the country, and
eventually, out of her practice. Her return to England was a return to
art. Someone who has been, as she describes it, “a line draughtsman all
my life”, embraced the latest technology and, with a striking change of
approach, she became an expert at the iPad. With it she has addressed
the drama of city architecture, often under construction, in works that
have all the impact of the abstract but which are, astonishingly, at the
same time documentary. Now, in her poster for the Lord Mayor’s Show she
brings together the City’s old and new with an even greater richness." -
Written by Sir Quentin Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI

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