Monday, July 25, 2022
Derek Moss Sculptures at the Beren
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Tate Modern
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Foggy Morning in Toft
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Sainsbury Centre in Infrared
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
A Photowalk Round Cambridge
We went into Cambridge yesterday to complete the Phototrail that Mark had set. Here are some images taken during the morning that aren't included in the set of 15 locations. The City has come out in a rash of Cows. Just three here but there are 90 cows located round Cambridge and will be there to visit until 4th September.
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Visit to Petworth House, National Trust
As yesterday was rain fron dawn to dusk, we decided a visit to Petworth House was the best option. A remarkable collection of artwork and treasures including the world's oldest globe from 1598 when Sir Walter Raleigh collaborated in its design. The carved room with the portrait of Henry VIIIth by Holbein studio and wood carvings by Gibbons is remarkable in its state of preservation.
Petworth House was owned during the Middle Ages by the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland. In 1682 the 10th Earl’s only child, Elizabeth, married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset; her inherited wealth allowed the couple to set about remodelling the house in a French baroque style. Some of the foremost craftsmen of the day decorated the house, including the wood-carver Grinling Gibbons and the plasterer Edward Goudge. The park, with its serpentine lake, is the work of ‘Capability’ Brown and is arguably his finest remaining landscape. It houses one of the greatest picture collections in the Trust - includes works by Titian, Bosch, Claude, Ruisdael, Teniers, Van Dyck, Lely, Kneller, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Blake - and a magnificent collection of landscapes by Turner (a friend of the 3rd Earl of Egremont, whose collection of early 19th century British paintings is displayed in the North Gallery).