Lucinda Douglas-Menzies

Portrait of Derek Walcot and Ben Okri

admin — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:50:19 +0000

A portrait taken of Derek Walcot and Ben Okri taken in 2004 is coming up for sale at Bonhams in the Roy Davids Collection. Part 111. Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets on 8 May 2013 13:00

Seamus Heaney portrait sold at Bonhams

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:54:08 +0000

A portrait of Seamus Heaney sold in The Roy Davids Collection. Part 111. Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets. Volume 1: A-K on 10 April 2013

Huguenot Portraits

admin — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:17:49 +0000

A series of my portraits of Huguenot descendents taken at La Providence, The French Hospital, Rochester, Kent appeared in Spitalfields Life today.

BBC News London 13 April 2013

February portrait

admin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:15:09 +0000

To mark my daughter’s 18th birthday this portrait of her was taken last week.

Sir Patrick Moore 4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012

admin — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:59:18 +0000

Sir Patrick Moore

Portrait taken at his home in Selsey, West Sussex 5 June 2007. On the desk is an orrery presented by the British Astronomical Association to celebrate 70 years of membership.

“I became interested in astronomy at the age of seven. My mother had a casual interest in it, and had a few books about it; by chance I picked one up- ‘The Story of the Solar System’ by G.F.Chambers (published in 1898) and was fascinated.

I did some more reading (I was able to cope with adult books), obtained a star map and learned my way around the night sky. Binoculars next; I joined an astronomical society, and went on from there. At the age of 11 I was lucky enough to be made a member of the BAA.

The idea was Eton and then Cambridge, to take my degree, but it didn’t work out like that. Until I was 15 I wasn’t fit enough for school; at 16 I could get around and had my Cambridge place, but Herr Hitler intervened, and I joined the RAF to fly. So I remain an amateur astronomer, which suits me very well.” (Portraits of Astronomers by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies)

Portraits of founder members of the East End Trades Guild

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:03:44 +0000

A number of the contributing photographers for Spitalfields Life were asked to take portraits of all the founder members of the East End Trades Guild http://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/11/19/the-founding-of-the-east-end-trades-guild-/2comments

Justin at The Menu 45 Brushfield Street E1 6AA

Noah Crutchfield at Maiden 188 Shoreditch High Street E1 6HU

Us at Work Xmas 2012

admin — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:00:19 +0000

I was delighted to be asked to photograph Romilly Saumerez-Smith and Lucie Gledhill’s beautiful jewellery for their Xmas 2012 mail catalogue last week. Here are a few samples of their work.

Earrings by Romilly Saumerez-Smith

Rings by Lucie Gledhill

Platinum print of Rose

admin — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:27:59 +0000

My framed platinum print of a rose sold four copies out of an edition of 10 at Virginia White’s Living With Art exhibition in September. Another print has just sold at Cobbold &Judd current 25th Anniversary Exhibition at Hintlesham Hall Suffolk. There are still four prints available out of the edition of ten: 1/10 £390 2/10 £375 and 3/10 £350 4/10 £325.

She has printed a selection of limited edition platinum prints of flowers especially for Living with Art marking a new direction into still life photography. “Photographing flowers can present quite a challenge; delicate and ephemeral one waits for the bloom’s moment of perfection in the staged and lit setting” says Douglas-Menzies “and although quite costly to create, the exceptionally beautiful platinum print, with it’s tremendous tonal range and enduring image-seems a fitting choice to capture that moment.”

Photography of dolls for Bobby Dazzler

admin — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:14:32 +0000

This week I did some photography for Bobby Dazzler of their amazing new collection of dolls. These two were about to travel to Japan where they are much in demand. “Each one is different and all have a story to tell” say their creators Rosie Short and Fumie Kamijo.

Virginia White furniture photography

admin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:01:09 +0000

London designer Virginia White launches her first collection of furniture inspired by a chance encounter: on a sailing vacation a few summers ago, she came acrosss the Villa Kerylos, an early 20th century Greek Revival Villa….

Photographs by Lucinda Douglas-Menzies

http://remodelista.com/posts/living-with-art-virginia-white-launches-a-furniture-collection