Mystery tour

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.

Photos by Roelof Bakker ( www.rbakker.com)

Well worth a visit.