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By Andrew Williams

I hope you all remembered to phone your mums on Mothering Sunday. It's always nice to remember the special place that mums have in the world, and now one local business is making it even easier for hard working parents to shop ethically.

Tower Hamlets owns a sculpture worth millions, designed by a world-famous artist.
Sadly, you have to trundle more than 200 miles north to see it.

Avant-garde Yorkshire-born sculptor Henry Moore created Draped Seated Woman for the borough in 1957 while working on a commission for the Unesco headquarters in Paris.

L’Oasis bar and restaurant is serving up another visual feast.

Paintings by Lyndon Hayes are currently on display at the Stepney gastropub, an artist whose work is regularly commissioned by The Guardian, Time Out, The Telegraph and Penguin books.

Lyndon attended a preview on Monday (March 10), where a case of wine with an exclusive label he designed and signed (pictured right) was auctioned off for charity.

His paintings will be on display until May 1, so if you haven’t discovered this gem of a pub in Mile End Road, now is the perfect time to nip in.

L’Oasis is in Mile End Road, Stepney Green (020 7702 7051)