Chihuly at Kew exhibition
This weekend just gone I decided to take some time off from the latest assignment and have a weekend of culture. Saturday I went to see Nottingham Forest play another home game and Sunday went to London to see the last day of the Gardens of Glass exhibition.
The football was great, Forest won again, 3-0 this time. Richard Owen was over from Paris and invited me to watch the match with him. Apparently it isn't really normal that in the three football matches i have seen in my time here i haven't seen the home team loose, and have seen 13 goals scored. I'm certainly not complaining about this though. I have really enjoyed each match, although seeing a premiership match sometime soon would be good.
The trip to Kew on Sunday was far more difficult than it should have been thanks to engineering works both on the mainline from Leicester to London and also on the tube line that goes to Kew. However 3 1/2 hours after leaving Leicester we eventually made it to Kew. By the time we got there we only had about 2 hours to look through the exhibition, so we didn't see all of it, but what we did see was amazing. The Chihuly scultpures were placed in and around three different glasshouses. They were just beautiful and often so cleverly placed among the plants that you could walk past them and not realised they were the glass sculptures and not plants. Once again I took lots of photos, so i'll leave you to look through them. If you want more info Chihuly does have a website, and the images on there are beautiful.
The Sun
Green Grass - this was easy to walk past and not realise it was part of the exhibition
Herons - these were stunning, so much implied movement in them. I loved them.
Some of the reeds were over 10 Feet tall. Apparently the glass blower stood on a mechanical lift to make them.
This is one of a set of pieces designed to look like Indian Reed Baskets. They captured the slight sagginess of the baskets.
Again these were hard to tell if they were glass or plants. They were slightly hidden in a pool and you only saw them at the right angle. Lovely.
One of two Palm House Towers. They framed the entrance, very impressive
The football was great, Forest won again, 3-0 this time. Richard Owen was over from Paris and invited me to watch the match with him. Apparently it isn't really normal that in the three football matches i have seen in my time here i haven't seen the home team loose, and have seen 13 goals scored. I'm certainly not complaining about this though. I have really enjoyed each match, although seeing a premiership match sometime soon would be good.
The trip to Kew on Sunday was far more difficult than it should have been thanks to engineering works both on the mainline from Leicester to London and also on the tube line that goes to Kew. However 3 1/2 hours after leaving Leicester we eventually made it to Kew. By the time we got there we only had about 2 hours to look through the exhibition, so we didn't see all of it, but what we did see was amazing. The Chihuly scultpures were placed in and around three different glasshouses. They were just beautiful and often so cleverly placed among the plants that you could walk past them and not realised they were the glass sculptures and not plants. Once again I took lots of photos, so i'll leave you to look through them. If you want more info Chihuly does have a website, and the images on there are beautiful.
The Sun
Green Grass - this was easy to walk past and not realise it was part of the exhibition
Herons - these were stunning, so much implied movement in them. I loved them.
Some of the reeds were over 10 Feet tall. Apparently the glass blower stood on a mechanical lift to make them.
This is one of a set of pieces designed to look like Indian Reed Baskets. They captured the slight sagginess of the baskets.
Again these were hard to tell if they were glass or plants. They were slightly hidden in a pool and you only saw them at the right angle. Lovely.
One of two Palm House Towers. They framed the entrance, very impressive
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