Wednesday 13th was our 9th wedding anniversary and we took the day off to travel down to
Margate by
'Javelin' train to visit
Turner Contemporary for the
Mondrian exhibition. A picture of
'Dune Landscape' has been in my sea inspiration folder for many years so it was wonderful to see it in the flesh, it's much larger than I imagined. Also to see how the grid paintings he's known for developed. The Spencer Finch exhibition was also interesting.
There was colour everywhere - I couldn't resist this fading, peeling, beach hut! I also took lots of photos of the art installation by
Krijn de Koning , with and without Ian and his pink shirt which looked different against different colour backgrounds
The building itself worked well with colours of the sky and sea ( as did the site specific installation by
Edmund de Waal)
Apart from viewing the exhibitions , we had a lovely
lunch at the café there followed by a walk along the harbour and a few sketches in watercolour ( the clouds were spectacular but luckily the rain held off ), returning to the café again for coffee and cake.
We returned to the station at the same time as lots of families who'd spent the day on the beach ( lots of sandcastles and stripy windbreaks in evidence!) A lovely day with a space out of time quality, back to work on Thursday.
2 comments:
We are going to Dungeness at the end of the month and hoping to go to Margate so a very useful post, looks like a really interesting place to visit.
This sounds like a perfect day to me - thanks for sharing it all. There are so many wonderful exhibitions everywhere these days, it so difficult to get to them all! xCathy
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