Wednesday 27 December 2017

You know better than to ask me that boys!

You know better than to ask me that boys! featuring "Nude III", Henri Matisse 1952 & Marlene Dietrich, Picture Press, Everett Collection 1933 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARLENE DIETRICH!

Monday 25 December 2017

Mum, you're a star!

Mum, you're a star! featuring The White Virgin of Toledo, 14th century & a detail from "Two Dancers 'Black and Red'", Henri Matisse 1938

Sunday 17 December 2017

Gentleman enjoying the prospect of Japan

Gentleman enjoying the prospect of Japan featuring "Ilyich (Lenin)" Alexander Lopukhov (1968) & detail from Geisha, 18th century Japan

Tuesday 12 December 2017

House work

House work featuring "The Family" by Rufino Tamayo (1936) & the library at Chateau de Menthon-Saint-Bernard, France 

Thursday 7 December 2017

Wall weary

Wall weary featuring reclining nude by Georges Braque, 1935 & the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem

Sunday 3 December 2017

Sans titre

Sans titre featuring film director Jean-Luc Godard born on this day  87 years ago & 'Headquarters' by Ed Ruscha 1982 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEAN-LUC!

Saturday 2 December 2017

Who gives a toss?

"Who gives a toss?!" featuring 'When Father Says 'Turn' We All turn', political cartoon, UK, 1905 & 'Boy Playing Conkers' photo Roger Mayne, 1957

Monday 20 November 2017

Never again

Never again featuring postcards of settee, English early 18th century & the pier in South Shields, UK, early 20th century

Monday 13 November 2017

Cold shoulder

Cold shoulder featuring Lucille Ball, photo Philippe Halsman 1950 & Aubrey Beardsley, photo Frederick Evans 1894

Thursday 9 November 2017

Chimp escape

Chimp escape featuring chimpanzee, foto Carl Lund & the beach at Peacehaven, UK 1960s

Saturday 28 October 2017

Oh Ben, say when!

Oh Ben, say when! featuring Jean Marais in 'Orphée' by Jean Cocteau (1950) & renovation of Big Ben 1980s, London UK

Friday 27 October 2017

Rag trade horror

Rag trade horror featuring illustration for 'Tailor of Gloucester', Helen Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) & 'Naked Man with Knife', Jackson Pollock, 1938-40

Thursday 26 October 2017

Harbour pleasures

Harbour pleasures featuring London prostitute's publicity 2017 & Anchor Steps in Burnham-on-Crouch, c1910 

Monday 23 October 2017

Face value

Face value featuring portrait of Anna Wintour by Alex Katz, 2009 & photo of Karl Marx by John Mayall, 1870

Monday 16 October 2017

Now I remember!

Now I remember! featuring detail from The Lady with the Unicorn, tapestry, France 15th century & Sterrett's Caravan Park, Ross-on-Wye UK

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Come on holiday

Come on holiday featuring 17th century wall painting, Church of the Virgin, Lindos, Rhodes & Pyramid Airlines N893, photo Henke Boele  

Monday 2 October 2017

Moscow eclipse

Moscow eclipse featuring Triumphal Arch of Moscow & detail from 'Pots of paint', Sabatier, 2000

Friday 22 September 2017

Why, don't you like diamonds?

Why, don't you like diamonds? featuring "Harlequin and Columbine" Bohumil Kubišta (1910) & the Seven of Diamonds playing card


Saturday 16 September 2017

It's the shampoo

It's the shampoo featuring manipulated film stills collage from The Man Who Fell to Earth by David Bowie 1976 & Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight UK

Thursday 7 September 2017

Hell or high water

Hell or high water featuring Mont-Blanc reflection in a lake, France & Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral, France

Saturday 2 September 2017

Mind over matter

Mind over matter featuring Granite Cliff (UK), Charles Roff 1979 & portrait of Philip Larkin, Humphrey Ocean 1984

Saturday 19 August 2017

Euro star

E U R O  S T A R
Featuring ballerina singing, walking on a tight rope by Peter Sylveire 
& Aerial view of Waterloo (70 x 100cm)
This and other pictures are currently on show until 1 September in The Gower Street Gallery at Waterstones, 82 Gower Street London WC1E 6EQ

Game on

G A M E O N !
Featuring ‘Steel Zinc Plain’, Carl Andre 1969 
& ‘For the Love of God’, Damien Hirst 2007
with added paint by Peter Sylveire
This and other prints are currently on show until 1 September in The Gower Street Gallery at Waterstones, 82 Gower Street London WC1E 6EQ

Sunday 6 August 2017

Thank you for the wallpaper

Thank you for the wallpaper featuring Abdullah Susi photographed in 1874 & Albumen visiting card 20th century

Sunday 23 July 2017

Luck comes in cycles

Luck comes in cycles featuring a group of betters at Epsom Horse Races, 1939 & 'The Cyclist' by Natalia Goncharova, 1913

Friday 21 July 2017

Queer bash

Queer bash featuring Figure on a wood panel, Mahafaly, Madagascar (date unknown) & "Ignudo", Michelangelo, 1508-13 

Saturday 15 July 2017

More power m'lord?

More power m'lord? featuring Battersea Power Station, London, photo Arnaud Desjardin 1998 & Swansea Dish, English Porcelain 1816

Wednesday 12 July 2017

No shame

No shame featuring nude by Amedeo Modigliani (1916) & Trinity Cathedral, Diveyevo Russia
Amedeo was born on this day in 1884

Tuesday 4 July 2017

bayswater

bayswater featuring "Queens Road Station, Bayswater" (London) by Walter Richard Sickert (1916) & Yellow River Highway Bridge, Shandong Province, China 

Tuesday 27 June 2017

She was almost TOO tame

She was almost TOO tame featuring Australian kangaroo & Nancy Mitford, photo Bassano 1935

Tuesday 20 June 2017

Right to bear arms included

Right to bear arms included featuring "Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee"Marcus Gheeraerts II, 1594 & Ivanhoe Motel, Anaheim California

Sunday 18 June 2017

For the love of god & the dead and dying

For the love of god & the dead and dying featuring "Untitled #153" by Cindy Sherman, 1985 & "For the Love of God" by Damien Hirst, 2007

Monday 12 June 2017

Coke goes tits up

Coke goes tits up featuring "American Nude" by Charles Frazier 1963 & Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad U.S.S.R. 1986

Wednesday 7 June 2017

Birds of a feather (?)

Birds of a feather (?) featuring "Azalea and lesser cuckoo" x 3 by Katsushika Hokusai, 1834 & Houses of Parliament London

Thursday 1 June 2017

I'd still be there if I hadn't been so clumsy!

I'd still be there if I hadn't been so clumsy! featuring "Interior with Young Woman Seen from the Back" by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1904) & bread serving dish and goblets painted and designed by Yakovleva Semyonov (1978)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

I can't imagine why I feel so cold here

I can't imagine why I feel so cold here featuring "Jane Avril putting on her gloves" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892 & old city street scene in Jerusalem 

Thursday 18 May 2017

Knife crime

Knife crime featuring "Youth", Ron Mueck, 2009 & "Bowl of Fruit, Violin and Bottle", Picasso, 1914 

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Sans titre

Sans titre featuring Geisha chewing on a brush, artist unknown, Japan 18th century & pyramid Louvre Paris, photo Serge Sautereau, 2002

Saturday 13 May 2017

What, lost your appetite?

What, lost your appetite? featuring "La nuit de Diane" by Jan Fabre, 2007 & detail from "Casserole and Closed Mussels" by Marcel Broodthaers, 1964

Sunday 7 May 2017

Sans titre

Sans titre featuring plaster statuette of a kneeling man, Vincent Van Gogh 1886 & La Grande Arche, Paris - La DĂ©fense, photo J. O. Von Spreckelsen 

Wednesday 3 May 2017

Can you see anything?

Can you see anything? featuring London prostitute's publicity 2017 & Ivanovskaya Tower, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia photo N. Samsonenko 1992

Sunday 30 April 2017

Les fleurs du bien

Les fleurs du bien featuring anonymous bunch of flowers & the chapel of St Michel, Paris (pour Monelle) 

Wednesday 26 April 2017

I'm the oldest by far

I'm the oldest by far featuring mummy of Ahmose I, Egypt 16th century BC & Andy Warhol, photo Robert Mapplethorpe 1983

Sunday 23 April 2017

Flowers for Pamela

Flowers for Pamela featuring early 19th century French postcard & model

Wednesday 19 April 2017

Black man

Black man featuring Luis Buñuel, photo Man Ray 1929 & "Dadaville"by Marx Ernst 1924 - with gouache added by Peter Sylveire 

Sunday 16 April 2017

Dream in colour

Dream in colour featuring "Noire et blanche" Man Ray 1926 & floral display with berries

Tuesday 11 April 2017

Refuge underground

Refuge underground featuring 'A polaroid for a Refugee' Giovanna del Sarto 2016 & 'Colors' Yoshinori Mizutani 2010 - 2014

Thursday 6 April 2017

Road rage

Road rage featuring Bull's head, Pablo Picasso 1942 & Broadway Boogie Woogie, Piet Mondrian 1942