Three London Views
2014
comprising Barbican, from the Smithfield side, Lloyd Square, Islington, and I love you: near Mount Pleasant

digital photographs, printed on giclée paper
the largest 22.9 x 15.1 cm. (3)

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Matthew Thomas (b. 1972, Essex) lives in London and has been a specialist in the Islamic and Indian Art Department at Bonhams since 2004. The three views here were part of a brief foray into photography in 2014, shot on film and in black and white with a Nikon, during wanderings mostly in Clerkenwell and the City of London. Since he has never been able to draw or paint, he found photography an apt medium not only for capturing compositions and juxtapositions in the city, but also (seen in the Mount Pleasant view) for recording scenes that were rapidly changing and disappearing.

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MATTHEW THOMAS (born 1972)
Three London Views
2014
comprising Barbican, from the Smithfield side, Lloyd Square, Islington, and I love you: near Mount Pleasant
the largest 22.9 x 15.1 cm. (3)