Clifton Road, Maida Vale
Clifton Road, Maida Vale by Tadeusz Deregowski, painted plein air.
This is an area of London notable for its still atmosphere, perhaps because it doesn't have much of a shopping street, and can't be used as a "through route." The area used to be quite seedy and noted for prostitution (Sigmund Freud as a refugee from Vienna stayed in a hotel a few years from where the picture depicts, and was astonished by the amount of prostitutes hangind around the hotel then), and Christine Keeler, the prostitute at the centre of the Profumo scandal worked here. Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder " was set here too (M is the old dialing code letter for Maida Vale). Since the eighties, however, the area has gone very much upmarket. This picture is currently part of an exhibition at Brazil Telecom, Florianopolis. [tadeusz598@yahoo.co.uk]
Tadeusz Deregowski is an artist who has studied in Edinburgh and Warsaw. After working in London for 10 years, Tadeusz has recently relocated to Brazil, where he has been working and exhibiting his paintings. He can be contacted at [tadeusz598@yahoo.co.uk].