Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Art, Heritage, Holidays, Malta 2023
… Malta’s National Museum of Art
On our last day in Malta we had just enough time to visit this museum which houses some lovely artworks.
MUZA is the National Museum of Art, branded as the Malta National-Community Art Museum. The word MUZA us a translation of the Maltese word for ‘inspiration’ and also stands as an [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2024
Filed under Art, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
The dinosaurs confined themselves to Norwich city centre but the mammoths wandered further afield around Norfolk. I saw a few in the wilds and captured a couple meandering around Kings Lynne.
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 26th 2023
Filed under Art, Holidays, Norfolk 2022
…In Norwich City Centre
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 24th 2023
Filed under Art, Arundel & Brighton 2023, Heritage, Holidays
Petworth House in the parish of Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century Grade I listed country house, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s to the design of the architect Anthony Salvin.[2] It contains intricate wood-carvings by Grinling Gibbons (d. 1721). It is the manor house of the manor of Petworth. For centuries it [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2023
Filed under Art, Arundel & Brighton 2023, Holidays
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 29th 2023
St John the Baptist’s Church was the first Catholic Church in Brighton. The building of the church was funded by Maria Fitzherbert a wealthy widow from Shropshire who became the secret first wife of George, Prince of Wales who later became King George IV. The marriage was kept secret because at that time it was [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 27th 2023
Commissioned by Hove Civic Society as the inaugural sculpture for Hove Plinth, April 2018
The sculpture is based on an Orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system. Rather than planets, icons based onpopular things associated with the past and present of Hove orbit the system.
The Constellation icons represent; The Amber Cup, The Hove Ship, Queen [...]
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