watercolour on paper, signed, titled verso
mounted, framed and under glass

image size 49cm x 63cm, overall size 73cm x 87cm

Note: Robin Webster OBE RSA FRIAS is a partner with Cameron Webster architects Glasgow and Professor Emeritus at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Robin studied Architecture at Cambridge and at the Bartlett at UCL and, after working with Gillespie Kidd and Coia in Glasgow, set up in practice, Spence and Webster, in London with Robin Spence. In the past architects such as Michaelangelo and Mackintosh were consummate artists who communicated their architectural ideas through drawings and sketches: but perhaps at that time there was no alternative. In a recent text for SSAA publication, Robin asked whether with photographic and digital technology, “ ...is skill with a pencil any longer relevant? “ I do not accept that architects need to be so different from artists: imagination and creativity is required by both, but what might we expect when an architect wishes also to be an artist, even if this is to be seen as something separate from architecture? What might be necessary, or could be expected, is that there should be evidence of some intellect in the work. This might be in the manner in which an unfamiliar quality of a building or landscape is revealed.