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Category Archives: Sculpture
High Head Sculpture Park
Another half-term beano. We visited High Head Sculpture Park. Looked at some sculptures! As well as the sculptures outside in the park there’s a gallery inside with more sculpture, paintings, and other art and crafts. There’s a small … Continue reading
Wakefield Sculpture Tour
Our trip to Barnard Castle was the precursor to another raid in our guerrilla campaign to explore the UK a weekend at a time. Leaving the kids at the in-laws in Crook (Pieland!), we took the Great North Road down … Continue reading
Posted in Sculpture, YSP
Tagged Hepworth Gallery, Jem Finer, Philip Reinagle, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Jersey – The Channel Island Way IV
Our second day’s walking started at the south-west corner of the island overlooking ‘the iconic’ La Corbiere lighthouse. And right beside this radio tower… …a remnant of the wartime occupation and another of the buildings available as a holiday … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, Butterflies, Channel Island Way, Church, Coast, Jersey, Sculpture, Walking, Wildflowers
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park
I’m way behind as ever. In the last week of October (half-term) we had a number of days out with the kids. One was spent at YSP, which we’ve visited many times before. We’ve been particularly keen to visit of … Continue reading
Posted in David Nash, Sculpture, Sophie Ryder, YSP
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Clitheroe Castle
Another half-term day out in the sunshine. Actually, there’s not much left of the castle just this keep which is apparently the second smallest in England. I learned that from a clever cartoon history in the neighbouring museum which seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Castles, Sculpture
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Easter Sunday walk to Arnside…
A glorious warm, sunny day, much like the day before. We left a car at Arnside and then set off from home to walk there via the coast. ‘We’ was TBH, A, B, and my brother-in-law and sister-in-law, the Doctors … Continue reading
Posted in Birds, River Kent, Sculpture, Walking, Wildflowers
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Not Peak-Bagging I
River Fillan Just back after a two day pass out to do some walking and catch up with some old friends. So how many peaks did I ‘bag’? Well….none. We were based, for the fourth year running, at the Ben … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, Mountains, Sculpture, Trees, Walking, Weather, Wildflowers
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Devil’s Bridge Butty Stop
Being excited by things that don’t cost money – that’s the key Evan Davis The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion … Continue reading
Posted in Sculpture, The Lune, Walking
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The Singing Ringing Tree
UPDATE: for those arriving from a search engine looking for Andy Goldsworthy sculptures – this sculpture is not by Andy Goldsworthy, but was designed by award-winning architects Tonkin-Liu. Last week we happened to be passing by Burnley and I bullied … Continue reading
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More Sculptures From Grizedale
These two seem to be a pair. Unfortunately, I can’t give any details about the artist because although I have several map/guides to the forest from nearly 20 years of visiting, they are all hopelessly out of date. More musical … Continue reading
Posted in Grizedale Forest, Sculpture, Walking
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