A Stoke Virgin
Well it was my first ever trip to the city at any rate!! The only time I'd ever seen it was from the train on a rainy day on a visit to Keele Uni a couple of hundred years or so ago.
The chaps were off to see Thor at the flicks so Mater and I grabbed the opportunity to pay [except it's free] a visit to The Potteries Museum. I had a hornet in my bonnet about seeing the Saxon hoard and we weren't disappointed- unfortunately I didn't have my camera wielding Mr GBT at my side so I have had to erm "borrow" a few photos. As ever the objects were smaller than I had imagined - I think I've got used to seeing the close up photos but with the aid of the magnifying glasses they provided the details were breathtaking- the filigree work is so detailed and on such a miniature scale. The gold is so delicate that the finds team had to clean the pieces with a mixture of cotton wool buds and thorns so they wouldn't scratch it. A few of the pieces that were on display
The famous "seahorse"- it is now thought to have been a double ended horse.
Not surprisingly, given the area, there are also extensive ceramic displays. Some makes me go aah and some definitely makes me go ewww. They were hosting a ceramics exhibition last week- reading up on some of the artists' inspirations frankly some it went straight over my head [what my brain actually is thinking is "load of old pretentious twaddle"]...I must be one of those people who Tracy Emin kindly refers to as "leading dull parochial lives" then ho ho! One person whose work I was bowled over by though was Claudia Clare. She makes the most fantastic huge vases using everyday experiences and stories as her starting point.
Arilx
The chaps were off to see Thor at the flicks so Mater and I grabbed the opportunity to pay [except it's free] a visit to The Potteries Museum. I had a hornet in my bonnet about seeing the Saxon hoard and we weren't disappointed- unfortunately I didn't have my camera wielding Mr GBT at my side so I have had to erm "borrow" a few photos. As ever the objects were smaller than I had imagined - I think I've got used to seeing the close up photos but with the aid of the magnifying glasses they provided the details were breathtaking- the filigree work is so detailed and on such a miniature scale. The gold is so delicate that the finds team had to clean the pieces with a mixture of cotton wool buds and thorns so they wouldn't scratch it. A few of the pieces that were on display
The famous "seahorse"- it is now thought to have been a double ended horse.
Not surprisingly, given the area, there are also extensive ceramic displays. Some makes me go aah and some definitely makes me go ewww. They were hosting a ceramics exhibition last week- reading up on some of the artists' inspirations frankly some it went straight over my head [what my brain actually is thinking is "load of old pretentious twaddle"]...I must be one of those people who Tracy Emin kindly refers to as "leading dull parochial lives" then ho ho! One person whose work I was bowled over by though was Claudia Clare. She makes the most fantastic huge vases using everyday experiences and stories as her starting point.
Arilx
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