Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

A few memories from my recent travels



Poland: Krakouw
In the mountains



Krakouw is a city in Poland which is full of history.
Above is the old city centre of krakouw and it is one of the biggest medieval square's in Europe.
Above is Auschwitz- A concentration camp.
London: site seeing

The Gold smith's company in St Pauls London

Taking the escilator at the tube station I was reading the adverts and saw an advert for an exhibition called "Mindfull of Silver"

I followed the directions which led to a beautiful old building where the exhibition was held. For this exhibition the goldsmiths had been given a topic of "vessel" and the exhibition showed their design process and how the silversmith got to the final piece. What I found the most fascinating was how each artist was given the same theme but not one of them's work was alike in any visual way.

If you go to this link you can see a few of the silversmith's works from the exhibition: http://http://www.modernsilver.com/mindfulofsilver/mindfulofsilver.htm

There were two silversmith's work that I engaged with : Lucian Taylor and Theresa Nguyen ( my next 2 blog posts will be about their work)

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Interesting photo's from my holiday overseas dec 09

Spain
The Elhambra in Spain..... and amazingly decorated palace with intricate designs inside on the walls and roof














A cathederal in Malaga, Spain






Belfast


View from outside the kitchen window in Temple Patrick, Belfast




Belfast City Hall, Our City Hall is exactly the same as it was bulit off the exact same plans


France

I want a house like this when Im older :) ( France)