Creative Samples by Lesley Maria Perez

Lesley Maria Perez

Creative Portfolio 2014 University of Greenwich Department of Architecture and Landscape

The following pieces were collated in support of my application to the University of Greenwich Certificate in Landscape Design programme 2014â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15.

Oil; 2001

Pencil; 2003

Pencil and charcoal; 2002

Pencil; 2003

Charcoal and Pencil; 2003

Pencil; 2008

Pencil; 2012

Oil; 2009

Conte, pencil and watercolour; 2005

Pencil sketches; 2011

Photography; Florida 2013

Photography; Florida various

18 Ashford Road: Before

18 Ashford Road South Woodford

raised bed

180cm

1:50 slate chipping

compost

shed

Hardscaping materials: — slate chipping — 450cm stepping stones in cream (x6) — plastic lawn edging (for 1250cm) — decking materials

220cm

— lawn edging pavers (for 500cm)

planting area F

80cm

decking platform

— cube planters (x2) primrose.co.uk White Polyterrazzo Tall Cube Planter - Large

220cm

80cm

— sleepers for raised planting area, retaining wall, and raised bed in rear

In 2012, while a horticulture student at the English Gardening School, I was commissioned to redesign a small private garden in northeast London.

planting area D

— 3x rectangular trellis for mounting on fences/walls

80cm

raised planting area B approx 437.5cm long

— fence posts and slats for two raised panels surrounding decking (see enclosed image and illustration below) 60cm lawn

The project consisted of meeting with the owners to discuss their desires and survey the plot, producing a choice of layouts, and then producing a suggested planting plan (incorporating existing specimens) and hardscaping guide from the chosen design.

planting area A

80cm

lawn edging pavers

80cm

planting area C

80cm 60cm table

40cm x 79cm cube planters x2 brick paved patio 80cm

raised L–shaped planter from decking/ sleepers approx 60cm high area E

18 Ashford Road: In-progress

18 Ashford Road South Woodford 1:50

Photinia x fraseri ‘Red robin’ Ceanothus as wall shrub

Plant list: — Planting area A: Aquilegia vulgaris var stellata ‘Ruby Port’ (x5) Echinacea purpurea (x3) Libertia grandiflora (x3) Tulipa ‘Apricot Beauty’ (bulbs x15) — Planting area B: x Heuchera ‘Tapestry (x1) Aquilegia vulgaris var stellata ‘Ruby Port’ (x3) Hosta (Tardiana Group) ‘Halycon’ (x1) Liriope muscari ‘alba’ (x3) Tulipa ‘Apricot Beauty’ (bulbs x15) — Planting area C: x Heuchera ‘Tapestry’ (x3) Brunnera macrophylla ‘Betty Bowring’ (x3) Epimedium x warleyense (x2) Helleborus x hybridus ‘Double Ellen Red’ (x3) Hesperantha coccinea ‘Alba’ (x3) Galanthus ‘Flore Pleno’ (bulbs x 10) — Planting area D: Galium odoratum (x1) — Planting area E: x Heuchera ‘Tapestry’ (x3) Athyrium niponicum var pictum (x2) Lamprocapnos spectabilis (existing) Pulmonaria ‘Sissinghurst White’ (x3)

2x Trachelospermum jasminoides trained on raised panels

D Wisteria sinensis ‘Alba’

Choisya ternata

Rosmarinus officinalis Camellia (dusty pink) Clematis ‘Ville de Lyon’ on vertical rectangular trellis

B Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Nigra’

A Lilac trained with a clear multi-branched stem

Pieris japonica

2x Acers (L: variegated, R: atropurpurea) Skimmia japonica ‘Rubella’

Cotinus coggygria Honeysuckle

— Planting area F: Calamagrotis x acutiflora ‘Overdam’ (x1) (tbc) Thymus vulgaris ‘Silver Posie’ (x1) — Planting area G: Agapanthus africanus (x1) (in pot on deck or sunk behind) — Planting area H: Calamagrotis x acutiflora ‘Overdam’ (x1) Echinacea purpurea (x1) Thymus vulgaris ‘Silver Posie’ (x1)

Hydrangea macrophylla (cerise)

2x planters with Laurus nobilis (Bay) trained into pyramids or columns Clematis on trellis

Phyllostachys nigra (black bamboo)

Camellia (pink)

As a Friend of the London Symphony Orchestra, I was asked in 2012 to design a book which would include personal tributes from LSO Friends for Sir Colin Davis’ 85th Birthday.

For Sir Colin Many of the individuals who support the LSO have been looking for an opportunity to tell you how much your music-making means to us. The obvious time to make a collection such as this is on retirement, but as you will see the hope is frequently expressed that you will never retire, so we decided not to wait for such an unwelcome occurrence and to use the excuse of your 85th birthday to present you with this book.

on your 85th birthday

Thank you

All the contributions are from people who are currently individual supporters of the LSO. Every one of us thanks you for enriching our lives and wishes you a very happy birthday and many happy returns of the day.

Being only a little younger than Sir Colin I have listened to his music with joy and admiration as long as I can remember. While everything he conducts bears the hallmark of his precision, insight and sensitivity, his Mozart and Berlioz performances are magically imprinted on my memory. But a very special memory for my family is the concert at Mansion House in 2009 when Sir Colin was presented with the Queen's Medal for Music by Her Majesty the Queen—and our 10 year old grandson was also presented to Her Majesty! We all wish Sir Colin a very happy birthday and look forward to many more of his beautiful concerts. Best wishes, David Scholey

Some years ago my wife and I went to a performance of the St Matthew Passion at Gloucester Cathedral conducted by Sir Colin, and with much of the orchestra made up of Stephen Isserlis's friends. It was a memorable performance, but it was slated in the press because they did not use ancient instruments. I was so cross about the unfairness of this review that I wrote a letter to Sir Colin saying that as far as we were concerned it was the finest performance of the St Matthew that we had heard. Some months later, to our astonishment and great pleasure, I received a handwritten reply in a handwritten envelope saying he never took much notice of reviews, and that the reason why the performance was so special was that all those taking part were devoted to the music. Martin Mays-Smith

for I should like to wish you a very Happy Birthday. I have very fond memories of when I played oboe and cor anglais in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales in the late 1950's and you were our Wind Coach. Since we were performing Dvorak's New World Symphony at the Edinburgh Festival that year, I remember many sessions with you one-on-one when you helped me with the famous cor anglais solo in the second movement. I should also like to thank you for your very many wonderful performances I have attended, both at the Barbican and the Royal Opera House. Sincerely, Anne Hepburn Edwards l

Happy Birthday Sir Colin. Your music making, and particularly your deep insight into the worlds of Berlioz and Sibelius, has been a constant inspiration to me ever since I heard you conduct Don Giovanni in the Festival Hall over 50 years ago. Have a glorious 85th birthday season. Best wishes Michael Gammie

A Colin Davis interpretation of an old favourite or a new work is an experience for both the heart and the mind. Over the years, I have been moved and excited by the performances Colin has teased out of the orchestra. And to see Colin lead his players is to see how an inspirational figure creates something very special by getting a team to perform at levels beyond their own expectations. Long may the remarkable partnership between Colin and the LSO continue. Mervyn King

music How fortunate I was that the last years of my time with the LSO coincided with the appointment of Sir Colin as Principal Conductor. This was not a man on any kind of ego trip, all he wanted to do was to make music with us and the result was music making of a very high order. Perhaps best of all, we played pretty well everything that Berlioz ever wrote—nobody does this music better. Thank you Sir Colin. From David Goodall

Thank you, Sir Colin, for adding so much to my appreciation and enjoyment of music over the last twenty-five years since I started coming to the Barbican to hear the LSO. Your rapport with the orchestra and soloists is a joy to behold! Anne Pearse

making One of my earliest experiences of Sir Colin was my first ever visit to Covent Garden. Encouraged by a television documentary on Frederica Von Stade I had decided that I needed to book to see an Opera. My initial choice seemed somewhat fortuitous, as Miss Von Stade was appearing in Werther at Covent Garden. At the time I knew nothing of the opera, or even Massenet. I was bowled over by the whole evening, not least the wonderful sounds drawn from the orchestra pit by Sir Colin. It proved a rather expensive evening, as I have been a (reasonably) regular attendee at Covent Garden ever since! However, most of the great performances I have attended led by Sir Colin have obviously been with the LSO. Of these, the Sibelius cycles stand out, as I am sure they must for so many others. I also have fond memories of performances of Berlioz, particularly the Damnation of Faust, Tippett, and Mozart. However, many years ago in pre-LSO Live days, urging the orchestra to record the Elgar Symphonies with Sir Colin. I am delighted to say that this indeed did eventually happen, thanks to the aid of LSO Live. These recordings rate amongst my most favourite CDs, and I note frequently top the best available lists in the media. With many thanks for so much great music making! Happy Birthday Anthony Madin

He used to visit Cambridge with the Chelsea Opera Group. We are talking 1950's. I was an undergraduate. He was just 'Colin' and hugely popular. A bunch of us were occasionally roped in to supplement the chorus. Hence my first inside experience of Otello and the Magic Flute. Somehow CUMS had missed the chance to have him as permanent conductor. Pure folly! I still remember him walking to the back of the hall while the Chelsea band rehearsed, saying “See, they don't really need a conductor”...

May your 85th birthday bring you as much glory, happiness, love and great music as you've brought to so many others through the course of your wonderful years. Have a Very Happy Birthday. Hiroaki Yamataka International Vice President London Symphony Orchestra All the best wishes, Yamasan

Life, vigor, wit, depth–those were the characteristics. No surprise to anyone who has since heard his Haydn, Berlioz or Sibelius. Treasured memories indeed. John Boyd l

Many thanks for all the wonderful music over the years. Jeanette Roberts

like Dear Sir Colin, Many thanks for all the wonderful lifeenhancing musical experiences you have given us, and best wishes for a very happy 85th birthday. Judith Mellor l

Thank you, Sir Colin, for all the music making which I have been able to enjoy in your company over the past 48 years. In particular, you have deepened my knowledge and understanding of the music of Berlioz from a performance of the first two Acts of the Trojans with Josephine Veasey, Ronald Dowd, Peter Glossop, and the New Philharmonia, in March 1965, through to the recent performance of the Grande messe des morts in St Paul's. And, of course much more besides. Birthday greetings, Martin Hill

I don't know where to begin! Perhaps with a special word for your wonderful concert performances of opera. For a long time I was rather sceptical of this format, taking the view that opera, unlike Victorian children, was meant to be seen and heard. But in your concert performances of opera everything seems to come together, giving the works a whole new focus and intensity. My own choices are Otello and Peter Grimes. They are lifelong favourites of mine which under your baton have been given a whole new impact. Trying to choose among your orchestral interpretations is an impossible task, so again I can only highlight personal favourites; I give pride of place to the stunning sound world of the Sibelius symphonies and among your many interpretations of your beloved Berlioz I would choose the Symphonie Fantastique and that truly luminous reading of L'Enfance du Christ. But whatever the performances, whatever the music, for me perhaps the most lasting impression from your concerts with the LSO is the extraordinary rapport that exists between you and the orchestra. One senses that you all become one person in the service of the music, and it is this which make your concerts such a warmly human as well as a musically profound experience. Happy birthday, Sir Colin, and thank you for giving us all such enormous and lasting pleasure! Mary Culpan

My first experience of Colin Davis was in 1962 when he conducted the LSO in the Damnation of Faust at the Proms (my very first Prom). My most recent was the concert performance of Der Freischütz, also with the LSO, in April this year. So for 50 years I have been able to enjoy Sir Colin's wonderful music-making both in the opera house and the concert hall. At Covent Garden the span stretches from TheTrojans and Peter Grimes in 1969 to the Jonathan Miller production of Cosi fan Tutte in 2001. With the LSO at the Barbican the highlight was probably the Berlioz Odyssey (1999/2000) which included such rarer works as Benvenuto Cellini and Beatrice and Benedict but there have also been fantastic concert performances of major operas—Carmen, Otello, a sparkling Falstaff—as well as intensive explorations of the orchestral works of Dvorak and Elgar. You know that with Sir Colin there will never be a routine performance but always one deeply involved with the music and bringing you fresh insights. May there still be many occasions to wish him 'Many Happy Returns'. Anne Stoddart

oTher Although I have been privileged to be at many of your concerts and operas for many years, my abiding memory above all others is of the tour of the then Soviet Union, which I was then responsible for sponsoring as General Manager of the Eastern Export Operations of Rank Xerox. The orchestra visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad and played to hugely enthusiastic audiences— even showing the Russians how to play Shostakovich 5. I can only add my thanks to the thousands of people whose lives you and the LSO have enhanced over the years. Congratulations and many happy returns on your birthday! Ralph Land, CBE

Sunday 27th April 2008 (Orthodox Easter): LSO concert at the Barbican, St. John Passion by James Macmillan, conducted by Sir Colin Davis. I travelled from Liverpool for over four hours to attend the above concert. Though it was a long and arduous journey, it was worth it. The concert was outstanding. I had the opportunity to meet Sir Colin after the concert and I had a very memorable conversation.

Many happy returns and congratulations. You have enriched my musical life beyond measure for over 40 years. As a young boy in the early 1970s I remember your inspiring work at the Proms especially, and indeed one of my own earliest memories of hearing you live was an absolutely revelatory performance of Beethoven 5 at the 1979 Proms with the LSO. Since then I have attended countless concerts that you have given and each one has been a deep and meaningful musical experience. As a teacher myself I especially admire your work with so many of the world's youth orchestras. What an incredible performance of Tchaikovsky's 4th at last year's proms. These young musicians will remember your work with them for the rest of their lives. Your dedication to the LSO is also quite unique. I am so glad that you are still able to give them so much of your time and I always come to your concerts knowing that there will be a great and deeply musical performance. It is so clear to us as listeners that for you it is the Music that counts and nothing else. I treasure so many of your recorded performances that will gladden the hearts of humanity for ever. Your selfless dedication to Music and Musicians is an example to anyone involved in this noble art. I am greatly looking forward to your 85th Birthday concert and the many more that you are giving this year.

for enriching lives beyond measure

At that moment Sir Colin stood up, looking a little bemused for Easter had been and gone a week earlier, Nevertheless he shook my hand and wished me a very happy Easter. Shortly after, James MacMillan joined us. Sir Colin went on to tell him about the significance of my day and the concert. Vida Milovanovic l

Dear Sir Colin I have been fortunate indeed to experience —to be moved by, to find joy in, to learn from—your inspirational conducting for more than fifty years. Although memory can be treacherous, I believe that I attended my first concert directed by you as long ago as 1959; your work has been a constant companion throughout the ensuing decades. As a student in London in the 1960s I was able to enjoy musical riches on most evenings (in those days the Upper Slips at Covent Garden were a maximum price of half-a crown!), and many of your performances remain vivid memories. Some of these were concerts with our beloved LSO, but I recall many others, particularly with the English Chamber Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House. I was privileged to be introduced to much of your enormous repertoire; in those days your Mozart, Stravinsky and—above all—Berlioz helped to create lifelong passions. There were innumerable special evenings at Covent Garden: A wondrous “Don Giovanni”, that fresh-minted “Cellini” with Nicolai Gedda, later “Les Troyens” and what remains the most vivid theatrical experience of my life— “Peter Grimes” with Jon Vickers...

Derek Holland

I joined the, then, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus in 1969 and shortly afterwards sang in a recording of Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts, under Sir Colin. My most recent concert with him was Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Proms last year. In between there have been numerous fantastic concerts and recordings. He is terrifying at times. He would spot someone not watching his beat and suggest that they should have stayed at home. During one rehearsal, many years ago, he asked a soprano what “Kyrie eleison” meant and she didn't know. Sir Colin was horrified that she was singing without understanding what she was singing about! Our next work with him was Mahler's 8th Symphony and I made sure I had the full translation written in! Highlights would have to include Peter Grimes in New York and Les Troyens (twice). Sir Colin has given me a lifetime of happy memories and I wish him good health and every happiness on his 85th birthday. With love, Mary Baker l

You were a sight to behold, luxuriant chestnut curls, shaggy sheep vest, when I interviewed you for the Boston Globe in 1966 during your first week as Boston Symphony Orchestra guest conductor. Why Berlioz? I asked. The BSO had learned theirs under Charles Munch. “Because he's virile.” Passion in composers, passion in music was to come from you for almost 40 years. In rehearsals, you said “figger” for “number,” the players' first inkling of an English man on the podium, and you brought English music nearly every season. Michael Tippett, of course (and himself). And Elgar. Would the howl of tormented “Gerontius” go over? Or would we, you quoting text, “use well the interval” and flee the hall. We sat stunned and shocked and moved. Something afoot too with “Messiah.” We'd become accustomed to performances, best typed by George Bernard Shaw, as a “lumbering family coach.” Yours was fast and fierce and tender. Not since Koussevitzky had we heard much Sibelius. The orchestra's fabled strings were grateful for, among other things, the Tchaikovsky

I told Sir Colin that it could have not been a better and more appropriate concert for such a day like today. Today is my Easter.

and Dvorak serenades. We loved the Mendelssohn “Midsummer Night's Dream.” I was lucky later to hear the Britten with the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as a “Messiah,” and, most of all, the big operas—from Berlioz and Mozart to Verdi—in concert form, unmessed with by stage directors. The Boston players appreciated that you mingled, schmoozed in the music library (the incumbent maestro was too grand), liked our whiskey (“Uncle Jack,” as you called our Tennessee sour mash Jack Daniel's), and added to the hilarity of BSO dinner tables. “Mensch” was their considered opinion of you. For a man who tended his own arboretum in Suffolk, England, the only

and for always making your poinT possible gift for your 65th was planting a sweet gum on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall to give you roots in our Suffolk County. For me later, knowing Shamsi and watching the children grow was a huge pleasure, a great picture of life as it should be lived (though I was not a great fan of the pet snakes and iguanas). There were outings to the theater, Shamsi wondering if Pinter would shock. And books to read, from “crimmies” to the “Jesus books” (Kazantzakis, George Moore, Bulgakin, Robert Graves), and your test of character, Broch's “The Death of Virgil.” You were generous catching the musical mistakes in my first venture into fiction, the opera shocker “Murdering Tosca,” but not uncritical: “No opera stage I know has anything like that number of trap doors.” Come back soon! You haven't brought us enough Nielsen. Margo Miller

Recordings were a greater financial strain and every LP represented a significant purchase. Yet the excitement of your Beethoven 7 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra remains with me today. My first of hundreds of your recordings with the LSO was of five Berlioz overtures, bought, I remember in Paris as an alternative to a night at the Opera! Those recordings are a most distinguished legacy. Your artistic leadership of the LSO as Principal Conductor and President has created one of most the distinguished of musical partnerships. I and thousands of other music lovers have marvelled at superlatively executed and spiritually enriching performances a good number of which have been happily captured by LSO Live. Many of these will always live with me—the Berlioz and Sibelius evenings, a Mozart G minor, Brahms 3, much Beethoven and Dvorak, “Falstaff” and “Otello”, the sense of discovery with Nielsen, “La clemenza di Tito” at Aix and the recent Grande Messe des Morts at St. Paul's. There are so many others... It is in the expectation that there will be many other great experiences to come that I set out this appreciation of your work and life thus far. Your wisdom and authority communicate your love of music with a unique blend of warmth, humility, profundity and humanity. Happy Birthday, Sir Colin! Thank you for enriching my life... Rod Stafford l

Thank you for so many wonderfully enjoyable performances, one of the earliest of which for me was a Royal Philharmonic Society concert at the Festival Hall in 1967 at which the Society's Gold Medal was presented to Kodaly. There was a different conductor for each item but my only memory is of your contribution, a delightful performance of a Mozart symphony. I look forward to many more concerts to come. Warmest birthday wishes. Leslie Berry

My very first sight of Colin was me as a young teenager being taken by a music loving aunt to concerts of the (London?) Hospitals Symphony Orchestra. My memory is that at least one of those concerts was at the British Medical Association's headquarters—BMA House in Tavistock Square in London. I clearly remember sitting in a balcony behind the orchestra and seeing Colin's intently staring eyes and his bush of hair. I also clearly remember going to Sadler's Wells Opera for a performance of Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen—absolutely enchanting—a new kind of experience for young me. I remember listening on the radio to a live broadcast of Colin conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra on tour in Europe. The first work was Berlioz Overture Le Corsaire—the audience gave that a standing ovation!

…someTimes in more ways Than one

Colin with a group of people talking about some music on the radio: Colin—“those notes with a hole” (meaning minims). Colin being candid on the radio: “London hasn't got a decent concert hall” (The Barbican Hall existed at the time). Colin in a Prom rehearsal of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony telling the somewhat unresponsive orchestra (not the LSO): “Look there are going to be people in the audience tonight who have never heard this piece”. Recently Colin talking to the announcer on radio before a concert broadcast: “It's good working with a soloist who actually likes music”. Wishing Colin many happy returns on his birthday. Dr. Martin Bligh l

Colin, Happy Birthday!

Sir COLin DAviS iMPALES MEMBEr Of AuDiEnCE with BAtOn! This could have been the headline in the Swansea Evening Post after a concert on the 28th October 1995 at the Brangwyn Hall. I, the innocent audience member, sat enjoying the Ritual Dances from Tippett's Midsummer Marriage when Sir Colin, whipping the Orchestra to further frenzy, let slip the baton. It spun over his head in a graceful arc heading my way. I ducked. It fell, skittering over the floor and out of sight. Despite broad grins from the Orchestra and the nuance of a shrug from Sir Colin, not a demi-semi quaver's hesitation—the music continued—and, elegantly, a second baton appeared from the cello section.

Thank you for the enjoyable experience of working with you.

However, I was (metaphorically) transfixed, found my way to the Barbican and became a Friend!

Bob Retallick

Hilary Houghton