ERIC R. KUHN

American-born British architect based in London. With major projects around the world, including the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent completed, the largest shopping mall in Europe, and the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction in Northern Ireland. 

"I am beginning to see the way you see (not the way you feel, while painting). But 'seeing' is a huge leap for me. Knowing paintings begin in layers of light, layers of colour, layers of shade & shadow, layers of emotion, layers of reflected colour, and that all these are pushed deep and tugged to the surface as you blend these layers to express the subject's (and your) own feelings ... this is all magnificent. We do the same with facades of buildings: what is revealed/what is concealed ... what is referential, what is teasing, what is overt, what is hidden ... and the ONLY balance between these myriad of surfaces is my own conviction about the balance that brings out the dark/bright side of a building's soul ... the anecdotal as much as the monumental ... the tempestuous and the joyful. You teach me to see my own art quite differently, Colleen."