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IN LONDON, there’s a popular short cut that snakes down from Rosslyn Hill past St Stephen’s Church to reach the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) in Hampstead, where construction work is currently under way.
Hoardings with a difference have been erected all along the path and towards the bottom of it To The Point have created a 30-metre-long outdoor gallery with impressive large scale reproductions of paintings by local artist Oliver Yu Chan.
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