Cheltenham Art Gallery - Casting Brilliance

On a recent visit to Cheltenham and with an hour to spare, I dropped into The Wilson the sparkly new Art Gallery and Museum to check out the fabulous new gallery space, and to see a truly inspiring exhibition by glass artist Colin Reid.

If you're at all interested in glass in any of its forms, and want to be astounded, don't miss this show. A fine retrospective of work from over 30years.

Ring of Fire (Kiln-cast and polished glass)

Ring of Aqua (Kiln-cast and polished glass)

Colour Saturation Crescent (Kiln-cast and polished glass)

Still Life with Books and Gilded Lens (Kiln-cast and polished optical glass with gold leaf)

Moulds on show

Casting Brilliance: Glass by Colin Reid is currently on show at the Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. Until 5th January 2014 and open daily from 9.30am until 5.15pm

Bakers back in Auckland

4th January 2011

Our camp site last night was so awful (bad, bad trailer park) that we both needed to get back to something a little more life affirming, preferably with good wine and a decent restaurant!

We escape early and have breakfast by the sea at 7:30.



We pick up a new - Bigger - van tomorrow so decided to head for Auckland, as it's close to van land and we could spend the day seeing everything we missed before.

Morning was spent in the botanical gardens looking at native plants. I've been logging all the wild plants I recognise from home and I'm sure they don't belong here.

There was a great exhibition by Joanna Fieldes



















Unnamed garden sculpture.



Sculptural plants



It was fascinating and sooo civilised. Plus good ice cream!

The afternoon was taken up with the Auckland War Memorial museum, interesting and frightening in equal measure. I spent a long time looking at colonial stuff and pacific island stuff,















but then I found the serious stuff.

Geology, reading about volcanos. I now know we need to leave NZ right now, it could go at any moment and we don't stand a chance!!

Had to find a good bar in which to calm down, I can recommend the local rose.







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