We have been rearranging the house here a bit. One of the changes is that I now have my own office instead of a pseudo-desk in the corner of the lounge. The morning light from this room is terrific and there is a nice view of the horse pasture and the wheat fields.
I’ve been enjoying [...]
We spent last weekend camping at a festival near Ashbourne, just into the southern end of the Peak District. Although it has dried up significantly from the previous weeks flooding, it had been raining fairly regularly last week and the festival was inundated with mud. Someone commented that you can tell how good a festival [...]
We visited the city of Bath last Saturday. It is a very interesting place. Long an important city, much of it was rebuilt in Georgian times and the architecture reflects that period. One of the things we most enjoyed while wandering the city, though, were the pig sculptures that appeared in various unlikely places.
The Bath [...]
I saw this graffiti yesterday while riding my bike into Derby.
The current Iraq policy isn’t particularly popular here in Britain. Almost everyone I’ve spoken with has disapproved of the invasion, though there is no consensus on the best strategy at this point. There is a sense of a potential threat of terrorism, however. [...]
I also thoroughly enjoyed the Henry Moore sculptures at Kew. I wasn’t very familiar with his work before, but I found that it really meshed well with the landscape at Kew. The undulating curves of his sculptures are very naturalistic. I hope you enjoy them as well.
I was intrigued by the street art in Barcelona and took this series of photos. It was remarkable how carefully the artists kept to their metal canvases; it was very rare to see paint on the stone walls. I suspect much of the art was only inspired by illicit graffiti and was actually [...]
We’ve been going fairly regularly to an art class organized by a local community centre. They invite an art teacher to put on three or four sessions focused on their specialty. Each teacher brings new ideas, techniques, and a new media. We recently completed several clay pieces. These are some of [...]
Well, I’m coming to the end of the Barcelona pictures. Actually, there are lots more, but I’m getting tired of going through them.
Art on the street in Barcelona was pretty incredible. I took a series of pictures of graffitti-style work. Maybe someday I’ll post the rest, but this one is my favorite:
On that note, here [...]
Everyone agreed that the Joan Miro museum was one of the highlights of the trip. Part of the appeal was that by this point everyone was fully recovered with their nauseating illness, but I think Miro’s art is particularly accessible and interesting. His use of primary colors combined with black and white is terrific. I [...]
The kids have been enjoying this joke recently and then we saw this great sculpture on the beach in Barcelona. The answer to the riddle is at the end of this post, so scroll down to find out the answer.
Here are a couple of other cool sculptures found on the beach:
And finally, the answer [...]
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