It is now a popular refrain that the pandemic’s health and safety restrictions had an unforeseen effect: advancing contentment through a heightened awareness of nature. Taking an ‘awe walk’ is what a ‘happiness officer’ might suggest.
Londoners certainly discovered the truth of Pitt the Elder’s remark, in the). Alister Warman, Director (1983-91) of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens and last Principal (1991-2003) of the Byam Shaw School of Art, died from cancer in May 2020.
