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Description: | This is one of series of 36 views of the Tower at Canary Wharf created by Janet Brooke. The concept is a deliberate homage to the 19th-century Japanese artist Hokusai, who created a well-known series of 36 views of Mount Fuji.
Brooke, who lives in Mile End, initially disliked the tower's intrusion into the East End's landscape. Then she decided to record its appearance from different locations. This print shows the tower from Limehouse.
Janet Brooke was hooked on printmaking 'from the moment I first pulled a squeegee across a screen and marvelled at that glorious expanse of colour.' She has a passion for London and believes the process and her chosen subject matter have similarities: '... my prints are built up with many layers of over-printed colour, echoing the organic way a city evolves, with each generation and tribe adding to what has gone before'.
Brooke is a founder member of East London Printmakers. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Janet Brooke | Subjects: | Cityscape Art and Design Home and Family | Temporal: | 1995 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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