'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...
'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