Good Morning lovely people tis Friday time for
Well thankfully last week the weather calmed and the sun came out with some blue skies thrown in for good measure, as we seem to have been stuck in the house for such a large period of February we decided to make the most of it.
On Friday we headed to the town of Barnsley for their small (7) elephant trail around the town, it was brilliant and we explored areas we probably wouldn't have otherwise.
We found this one in front of the town hall
Inside the town hall we enjoyed the museum and the current exhibition, based on a stone head being found next to a church building, the inspiration led to the creation of these wonderful wooden heads, using local wood.
Onwards on our trial, we headed to the Cooper gallery to find the next elephant.
and here it is, based on the children's book Elmer
Down to the bus station
I had to get the other side of this one as I loved the bridge.
Into the main town centre this is the first Covid 19 commemorative piece that I've seen, very poignant and beautiful.
We found the one that looks like Elmer in the library (of course)
And this one in the market.
This one was in the new Glass Works shopping centre
This one in the original Alhambra shopping centre
Outside the Glassworks is this sculpture of Kes, the story based on a local lad and his pet kestrel
Then we found another museum/art gallery area, providing artistic responses to the pandemic, I loved this piece
The love Barnsley neon sign was beautiful
And is engraved in the stone plinth of the Covid 19 statues.
On Saturday we were hoping to head to Wentworth Woodhouse to enjoy their snowdrops, but it was closed due to filming of the Crown. So we booked and headed instead to Brodsworth and saw new sculptures designed in response to telling the story of the link between Brodsworth and the slave trade.
There were two ships linked with the house that were slave ships, Liberty and Lottery.
We wandered the garden, grabbed this blustery selfie
and discovered more sculptures.
Brodsworth looked particularly pretty in the sunshine
We found some snowdrops in the sunken garden.
Some of them were really pretty
Another sculpture with sugar cones, rum barrels and a tea pot, which confused me a little because it mentioned coffee, I'm assuming a teapot is seen as a British 'thing' potentially.
This one shows a large house at the back and a small rudimentary slave home in the front.
We found a carpet of snowdrops
And hubby got a close up
There were also lots of aconites.
The carpets of snowdrops were spectacular.
Sunday arrived and two new art exhibits at YSP and a fine blue skies day forecast we set off bright and early.
First stop the restaurant for a naughty breakfast
with my breakfast date
David Nash has artworks on display in three areas, the upper space in the main centre, the Weston gallery and the Bothy, we enjoyed exploring all three which predominantly showed his artwork which he isn't as widely known for as his sculptures. The information really was fascinating to read, I liked his 'red' work namely this piece
and this piece
Another exhibit had opened, linked with the shop (because you could buy them). They had opened yesterday, artist Yukihiro Akame, I really did love all of these
the tallest one is actually the largest piece he has done
I also loved how the light caught them
I think there were 16 on sale and 14 of them were already sold
Genuinely loved these, originally he was an architect and now works with clay, stone, wood and other natural resources to create these works of art.
The rest of the week has fair tripped along at a merry old pace as always and I find myself at Friday once more, I hope you've had a grand week.
Biggest hugs
