- Jul 18
- 4 min read
Searching For Bohemia By Blue Firth, founder of Dohm Ceramics
By God, she’s done it again. Blue Firth, excellent contributor to Tat London, has a knack for bringing to the surface things that should be so firmly under my nose that I always feel faintly embarrassed not to have known them already, and yet entirely grateful for the introduction. After her essential primer on the work of Lucinda Lambton, she has now made the imperative connection to one of the greatest television presenters of all time, Jonathan Meades.
I shan’t go too deeply into it, as Blue has already done a heartening job of getting us all excited for this next step in our art history education, but it is safe to say we need Jonathan Meades back on television. And if no producer is prepared to take the risk, I would happily invest in him starting a podcast. Whether it is a child falling over in the background two minutes in, Meades brusquely shoving a dog aside at the thirteen-minute mark, or perhaps my favourite affectation of all, his plain refusal to acknowledge anyone else in the episode, I find myself warmly won over by his acerbic charm. If any readership is likely to agree, it is this one.
So thank you to Blue for the introduction. If you are in the market to feel thoroughly stupid while also being utterly delighted by language and by the sheer breadth of his knowledge, I suggest you begin immediately with Firth’s recommendation.
