On the first Sunday of my recent trip to England I was staying with my nephew and his family in London. They live within walking distance of Kew Gardens and my great-niece was lucky enough to have a work-experience spell there recently. During that time she was particularly interested in a brick building which houses the paintings of Marianne North and she was keen to…
Now that museums don't stop you from taking photos any more (without flash) my habit of trying to record inspirational pots is out of control! My friend Julia and I enjoyed lunch in the gift shop café at the Fitzwilliam Museum and then she followed me around the Ceramics rooms while I drooled over the collection. I've sneaked photos of some of these pots…
To complete my previous blog, I'd like to add pots by clay artists who are permanent members of Contemporary Applied Arts. This gallery shows the best of British Fine Crafts. This was my final day in England and I was determined to make the most of it, in spite of having picked up one of those beastly colds that one does on a trip…
On my last full day in England I took myself off to London's South Bank to visit Tate Modern, but first I wanted to find Contemporary Applied Arts again. It took me about fifteen dawdling minutes from Waterloo to find the gallery on Southwark street and it's only about a block south of Tate Modern and the Thames. This is the link to the CAA…
Outside the vast barn that is Messums Wiltshire there are sculptures displayed, waiting for collectors. Our first encounter was with ceramic artist, sculptor and painter Sandy Brown's 'Temple'. Commissioned by Chatsworth House two years ago it now enjoys a prominent home by this gallery's entrance. The tile-covered house has one door and coloured glass circular windows in the domed ceiling. Flamboyantly painted, the space is…