A profile featuring gallery artist Tarka Kings' home and studio appeared in House & Garden this September.
Written by Fiona McKenzie Johnston, with photographs by Mark Anthony Fox, this in depth article illustrates how Kings' exceptional grasp of colour, and instinctive ability to work with different materials, permeates her living and working spaces.
McKenzie Johnston notes how her Hammersmith studio...'is positioned on a pontoon in the middle of the Thames on the stretch of river that Tarka has known all her life. ‘It was a strange serendipity that I found this studio when I was half way through doing this series, so I then had water around me all day from the morning to the evening,’ she explains. ‘It’s a very strange contradiction between it being very peaceful, but the river being incredibly active because the tide is constantly moving.’ As tidily arranged as the house, the studio is considerably smaller than her previous workspace, and it has, she explains, impacted her opinion on scale: ‘I’ve realised there is something very comfortable about smaller spaces – which is something to think about for the future.’ Such a reduction would require discipline and restraint – but we know that under Tarka’s hand, such stipulations become covetable qualities, and bearers of beauty.'
Read the full article here: HOUSE & GARDEN
