The Room of Baroque delights is LLB’S first ever Art installation piece and uses four of his Fantastical and Romantic Arcadian landscape paintings as a creative jumping off point.
Using photo reels of the paintings that captured each day’s painting from first sketch to final glazing the Installation welcomes viewers into the LLB’s Creative process which is very much in the Grand Classical manner.
The paintings themselves each explore LLB’s deeply held love for Art History and his passion for the theatrical powerful drama of the Baroque period. It was a time when spectacular artistic effects were expressively utilised with highly symbolic power.
Disentangling the references and symbolic motifs is something LLB suggests should be up to each viewer encouraging a particular and extremely personal read of the piece.
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is a classically trained fine artist with experience in both the public and private client design world. Although best known for his stints as a presenter on shows such as ‘Changing Rooms’ and ‘The Holiday Programme’ in the 90’s, LLB has been married to maximalism since he was a child.
His love of pattern and design accumulated during a Fine Art degree at Camberwell School of Arts (now a constituent college of the University of Arts London). This degree left LLB with a steady hand but a bigger ego… He took his new-found knowledge with him to a variety of design companies and TV shows before establishing Llewelyn-Bowen Design in 1998. Since then, pattern has remained the key component to every product, project and performance in LLB’s portfolio.
