The Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Devon is a wonderful rural art centre. It is almost five years since I have been there and my recent trip was as enjoyable as my first. I wrote about the gallery back then so only need to add the link to that post of 2022. The latest exhibition is…
Category: Gallery Visits
The Apocalypse Tapestry at Angers, France
The Bayeux Tapestry is attracting great reviews in London. Those who follow this blog know I am a keen admirer and have written numerous posts on the Romanesque masterpiece. But today we were in Angers, a city in western France beside the Maine river at the edge of the Loire Valley. We visited the hugely…
Barbara Hepworth at St Ives
Barbara Hepworth, despite being born in West Yorkshire, is synonymous with St Ives, living in that West Cornish town for thirty five years from the outbreak of the Second World War. She was already an established sculptor by then and a pioneer of British abstract art. She set up her studio, Trewyn, in 1949 in the centre…
Kew Gardens, The Palm House and Art Galleries
Last week we visited Kew Gardens. This was not our first visit but we concentrated on the Palm House this time as it will soon close for a major refurbishment. Decimus Burton and Richard Turner unveiled this astonishing iron‑and‑glass cathedral of the tropics in London in the 1840s. Even now, the great curving ribs overhead…
The Istanbul Modern
Istanbul is a city we have been meaning to visit for years and we finally arrived a few days ago. But what to write about. The architecture of the old city is amazing from the Byzantine Hagia Sofia to the seventeenth century Blue Mosque. But I have chosen the Museum of Modern Art a few…
