For my recent birthday, Amanda took me on a mystery tour of London.
We started at the Haunch of Venison gallery, Guiseppe Penone's wood sculptures
and his negative bronze casts of cedar bark
Graphite on black paint on canvas - a clever effect
Also had some Richard Long sculptures
I liked the mud thumb prints - good link to Guiseppe's work
Boris-biked it along the Regent's Canal to the East End where we found a couple of interesting shops -
Who knew you could be a Market Sundriesman -
my career advisor never ever mentioned it ...
Artist at work ...
Also visited the St John museum in Clerkenwell - http://www.museumstjohn.org.uk
and had a great lunch in the new St Pancras hotel -http://www.thegilbertscott.co.uk
Finished off with a rather fascinating silent tour of Dennis Severs house in Spitalfields -
http://www.dennissevershouse.co.uk
Each room was the like being inside an old master painting where the inhabitants have just left the building. Also without any descriptions and a ban on talking you had to work hard to understand what was in front of you - a bit like studying a difficult piece of art and trying to articulate what you feel about it.
Well worth a visit.
