Category Archives: Sculpture

November 23rd…

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Guthlac

What was so special about the 23rd November? I am sure there were many births, marriages and deaths on that particular day. Perhaps people were distracted by other things happening? Whatever the reason I didn’t get any visits to this … Continue reading →

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I am an Island…

Posted on November 9, 2025 by Guthlac

If you ever despair about the value of human creativity, take a trip to the latest exhibition at the Djanogly gallery, Nottingham. AI nonsense might produce a tidal wave of slop, but this exhibition restores faith in creativity. (Full disclosure: … Continue reading →

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Spirit Postponed…

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Guthlac

A wonderful day was had by all when we visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It was sunny and warm and felt like early summer than the last knockings of April The art was wonderful. We had gone to see the … Continue reading →

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A Different Time…

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Guthlac

2015 – Life seemed so much simpler then. Or was this an omen of things to come?

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And the Walls Kept Tumbling Down…

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Guthlac

Standing at the top of the ridge upon which Knaptoft stands you did get a feeling that you are looking out on a very green and pleasant land. This is of course is true right upto the point it is … Continue reading →

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Aging Rock Star…

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Guthlac

One of the many signs that age is catching up on you is when you visit a statue that memorialise something or someone from your formative period and you appear to be the only one who notices. Yesterday we visited … Continue reading →

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Catching Up # 01…Compton Verney…

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Guthlac

Another day another art exhibition. This time it was a return to Compton Verney and their summer exhibitions of David Batchelor’s work, a selection of portraits which were both photographs and a couple of paintings from the National Portrait Gallery … Continue reading →

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All You Need is Love…..

Posted on June 29, 2022 by Guthlac

Corny I know but it does seem appropriate for the new Robert Indiana exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Before I visited the exhibition all I knew about Indiana’s work was the sculpture from 55th and 6th Street in Manhattan, … Continue reading →

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Housebound….

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Guthlac

For reasons that are too boring to go into I am in effect housebound for the next few days.   Not to put too fine a point on it it is driving me and certainly my wife CRAZY.   Perhaps the most … Continue reading →

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Three Davids….

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Guthlac

  On Sunday we visited the Victoria & Albert museum in London – great institution appalling catering.   As can be seen I took a walk around the cast Cast Court where you can see full scale casts of some of … Continue reading →

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