As part of our unfolding Art Stories for The Art of Living, we step into the heart of Serene, the triple-aspect kitchen, dining and family room.
The kitchen at Serene is a space of warmth, tactility and openness: terracotta cabinetry, timber accents and polished concrete layered under soft daylight.
Against this soft, grounded palette we present a selection of photographs from Andrew Meredith’s documentary series Walking the Westway, these photographs introduce urban stillness, nocturnal light, the contrast of infrastructure and landscape texture and narrative depth and a sense of London’s hidden rhythm into the home’s most open space.
The pairing creates a tension that feels alive, serene architecture meeting the raw poetry of the city.
As the light shifts through the day, the photographs respond softening, sharpening, and revealing different tonalities.
Where the kitchen offers openness and warmth, Meredith’s large-format works ground the space with narrative and a cinematic sense of place.
“Westfield - Walking the Westway”
“For years, driving the Westway, I wondered what lay beyond the concrete barriers. During lockdown, at 3 am on Sunday mornings, I began walking the route with my film camera — uncovering an entire parallel London hidden from view.”
Andrew Meredith
Shot on a Medium Format Mamiya film camera, the images reveal a London that is raw, atmospheric and usually invisible, a city seen only when the streets fall silent.
“Westbourne Park - Walking the Westway”
Directly opposite Andrew's Westbourne Park photograph, the kitchen at Serene opens into a beautifully balanced composition of terracotta cabinetry, soft limewashed walls and polished concrete flooring. Natural light floods through the large-format glazing, wrapping around the room and illuminating Meredith’s work with a shifting, cinematic glow throughout the day.
From this angle, the photograph becomes an anchor point, a quiet window into the nocturnal infrastructure only a stone’s throw from Serene, its deep blues, crimson bus depots and long-exposure light trails echoing subtly against the warmth of the cabinetry. The contrast between the grounded, earthy tones of the kitchen and the atmospheric intensity of Westbourne Park creates a dialogue that feels both local and layered: the serenity of the home meeting the raw pulse of the city just beyond it.