The Journal

There is a definite magnetism in Hampstead that has attracted artists, creative souls and cultural connoisseurs for hundreds of years. This is an area that began its modern life as a 17th-century spa destination, surrounded by an abundance of wild and natural beauty that provides the stirring inspiration required for minds to wander off the well-trodden path and allow more creative endeavours to be explored. From the writing salons of the early 1930s that drew luminaries such as Virginia Woolf and D.H Lawrence, through to modernist visionaries like Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, a positive Bohemian energy has taken root here. And it is one that shows no signs of slowing down.