An original celebration of the great London lunch.
Built from the menus, typography and ephemera of some of London’s most recognisable dining rooms, The London Lunch brings together decades of lunches, institutions and familiar names in one richly layered original.
Menus from St John, Sweetings, Scott’s, Wiltons, The Wolseley, The Devonshire, J Sheekey, Rules, Bellamy’s, The Delaunay, Mount St Restaurant, Langan’s, Bentley’s, The Quality Chop House, Quo Vadis, Bibendum, The River Café, The Ivy, The Goring, The Ritz, The French House, Andrew Edmunds, L’Escargot and others are torn, layered and partially obscured beneath washes of acrylic paint.
Loose areas of brilliant blue sit against chalky whites, creams and aged paper, with flashes of burgundy and handwritten details appearing throughout. Oversized LONG LUNCH lettering stretches across the upper half of the work, while fragments of restaurant names and menus emerge and disappear as you move around the canvas.
And hidden quietly amongst it all, in the lower right-hand corner, is “One More Bottle” — a subtle nod to that inevitable point in any proper long lunch.
Built slowly through multiple layers, every torn edge, brush mark, stain and piece of typography forms part of the finished surface. No two works from the series can ever be repeated.
An original celebration of the great London lunch.
Built from the menus, typography and ephemera of some of London’s most recognisable dining rooms, The London Lunch brings together decades of lunches, institutions and familiar names in one richly layered original.
Menus from St John, Sweetings, Scott’s, Wiltons, The Wolseley, The Devonshire, J Sheekey, Rules, Bellamy’s, The Delaunay, Mount St Restaurant, Langan’s, Bentley’s, The Quality Chop House, Quo Vadis, Bibendum, The River Café, The Ivy, The Goring, The Ritz, The French House, Andrew Edmunds, L’Escargot and others are torn, layered and partially obscured beneath washes of acrylic paint.
Loose areas of brilliant blue sit against chalky whites, creams and aged paper, with flashes of burgundy and handwritten details appearing throughout. Oversized LONG LUNCH lettering stretches across the upper half of the work, while fragments of restaurant names and menus emerge and disappear as you move around the canvas.
And hidden quietly amongst it all, in the lower right-hand corner, is “One More Bottle” — a subtle nod to that inevitable point in any proper long lunch.
Built slowly through multiple layers, every torn edge, brush mark, stain and piece of typography forms part of the finished surface. No two works from the series can ever be repeated.
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