The first post in the new Bass Watch series is "To Thee we Sing" Op.27 No.6. by Pavel Chesnokov. The lowest notes by the Oktavists is an A1. Enjoy!

If this were my living room, a happy man I would be! Just look at that feature window - a beautiful example of the Art Deco style. The floor is oak parquet flooring, and it is in great condition, while the two radiators satisfy my need for symmetry. Love the light fitting too!

Hello everybody. I wanted to share this piece of music with you all, as I have been listening to it for a while, and I really can't get enough of it! Although composed by Mozart, the first part reminds me of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. I hope you all like it!

I absolutely love the Art Deco style of architecture, painting and fashion, so today I would like to post a few images of painting by the wonderful Tamara de Łempicka. I hope you like them.

Here are a few paintings for you from painter David Bomberg, one of the Whitechapel Boys. These four paintings, Vision of Ezekiel, Ju-Jitsu, In the Hold, and The Mud Bath, are from the period 1912-14. If you are interested in his work, why not check out the Borough Road Gallery, which has a collection of paintings and images by Bomberg and his pupils, and which is situated in the same building where Bomberg's classes took place.

The sun is shining in London, and we've been without rain for what feels like forever, and today has been a wonderful day. So, to celebrate, I'm posting Van Gogh's Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun from November 1889.

Another beautiful painting for you all: the atmospheric Lady of Shalott by English Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse. The picture illustrates the following lines from part IV of Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott':

And down the river's dim expanse
Like some bold seer in a trance,
Seeing all his own mischance -
With glassy countenance
Did she look to Camelot.
And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shalott.

I remember seeing this image when I was young on a school trip to the National Gallery in London. It is called The Tailor, and is by the Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni.

I rediscoverd it yesterday when a friend showed me a book about Italian painters.

On a recent walk in North London, I stumbled upon Bruce Castle Museum. It was a wonderful place, with exhibitions, a Vintage fair, and lovely grounds. One of the exhibitions was about a painter, Beatrice Offor, who had exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Beatrice had an eventful life. She studyed at the Slade School of Art, and while there, she shared a studio with Mina Bergson, one of the founders of the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, an association which influenced some of her paintings (see The Crystal Gazer at Bruce Castle). Offor lived in Chelsea with her first husband, William Farran Littler, and exhibited from her King's Road Studio address.

Her two children by Littler died very young, and Littler himself died in1898 in the Banstead Asylum. Offor went on to marry James P. Bevan, from Bruce grove, Tottenham. She had further exhibits at the Royal Academy, including the painting Circe. In 1919, Offor suffered a nervous breakdown, and on the 6th August the following year, she threw herself to her death from her bedroom window: she thought she was loosing her talent!

Beatrice Offer was burried in Lewisham.

The exhibition, Beatirce Offor: A Tottenham Artist, will be on at Bruce Castle from 17 July – 29 September 2013 in the Compton Gallery. Check out this link for further details.