Category Archives: Art and Scultpure

Window art

Posted on Sat, 29 June, 2019 by LensScaper

Previously I posted an image of the stark exterior of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne (click here to view it). If you were to turn around and view the opposite side of the road then there is likely be something … Continue reading →

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Christo on the Serpentine

Posted on Thu, 19 July, 2018 by LensScaper

Christo, famous for wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin  has a new installation this summer in London. It’s a 66ft high array of oil barrels in the shape of a pyramid with the top cut … Continue reading →

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Robert Indiana RIP

Posted on Thu, 12 July, 2018 by LensScaper

This is an ‘image’ that will be well-known to many of us. It exists on cards, posters, album covers, jewellery and T-shirts and of course as this Sculpture. It has been around since 1965, and yet the Artist who created … Continue reading →

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Surveyed from all sides

Posted on Mon, 22 January, 2018 by LensScaper

Last week (at the last minute, as per usual) I saw Rachel Whiteread’s exhibition at Tate Britain. She was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993 and is one of the UK’s leading Sculptors, casting objects and … Continue reading →

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Chrome Horn

Posted on Mon, 23 January, 2017 by LensScaper

Always a pleasant surprise when you see something unusual in an ordinary place. I spotted this in the Plants Shop at Nymans (National Trust property in W Sussex). There are several of these chrome horns, of different sizes, each  in … Continue reading →

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Under Cover

Posted on Wed, 14 December, 2016 by LensScaper

I have heard of gardeners who go to some effort to protect plants from frost damage over the winter months, but this is the first time I’ve come across sculptures wrapped in shrouds. Can you imagine what they are thinking … Continue reading →

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Gargoyle

Posted on Thu, 2 June, 2016 by LensScaper

Not a classical gargoyle high up on one of our Cathedrals but sited just below the rim of an ornamental fountain in Nymans Gardens, and it was definitely a gargoyle. On the day this image was shot the water was … Continue reading →

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Art on the Pier

Posted on Tue, 15 March, 2016 by LensScaper

Art can be found in unexpected places and photographing it can produce intriguing results. We were in Worthing recently and walked out into the pier. Running down the centre of the pier was a barrier made largely of glass or … Continue reading →

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Cola Drinker

Posted on Thu, 17 December, 2015 by LensScaper

Last summer I walked a number of walks in and around Milton Keynes which, quite possibly, I will never walk again as a result of our recent move down into Sussex. I don’t think that thought actually occurred to me … Continue reading →

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Twice the Time

Posted on Thu, 5 November, 2015 by LensScaper

Regular readers of this blog will know that we are ‘in the process’ of moving house. It’s a process that seems to have consumed the vast majority of the year so far. Moving house is said to rank as one … Continue reading →

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