Exhibition Days Away 2

In my previous post we had arrived in Ruthin.  The next morning after breakfast at Wetherspoons we had a wander around the town.

 

 

We were amazed to find that the public are allowed to wander freely around the grounds of the Ruthin Castle Hotel.

The Gatehouse

We moved on to the Ruthin Craft Centre to see the exhibitions there.  There was one room dedicated to the textile work of Matthew Harris.

And in a much larger space the exhibition Natural (Re)Sources which had work from 14 artists using a variety of different materials.

Work by Claire Benn

We then travelled to Ellesmere.   We had visited the town once with my parents but only remember viewing the Mere.  This time we walked along the canal and into the town.

After lunch at The Boathouse overlooking the Mere we drove towards Whitchurch, visiting Grindley Brook Locks on the way.

 We had a little walk around Whitchurch.

And then we drove home.

We packed a lot into our two days away!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Exhibition Days Away

We went away for a couple of days because I wanted to go to two exhibitions.  We could probably have done both in one day but it was nicer to go at a slower pace.

Firstly, we went to the Willow Gallery in Oswestry to see their current exhibition Stitch by Stitch.  It was lovely to see work made by people I know including Jo Smith, Liske Johnson, Karen Herrick and Cas Holmes amongst others.

Jo Smith: Garden Friends - Red Fox

Liske Johnson: Squinting at the Sea

Sorry ladies about the quality of the photos - I was snatching them with my phone.  It's a popular exhibition and between the people and the lighting it was quite difficult to get good photos. (well That's my excuse!)

Then we went to the British Ironwork Centre. This was part sculpture park, shop, cafe and craft studios. It was also advertising the Knife Angel but we didn't ever find it which is odd because it's very tall.  I'm pleased we saw it when it was in Worcester.

From Oswestry we made our way to the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct where we had lunch and a short walk beside the canal.

A narrowboat crossing the aqueduct

The view from the aqueduct

The aqueduct

From there we drove through Llangollen and stopped at Horseshoe Falls.  I thought this was going to be a waterfall but turned out to be a cast iron weir. It enables water to be taken from the River Dee to feed the Llangollen Canal.

We continued our journing to Ruthin where I had booked us into a hotel.  The view from the bedroom window was fabulous.

I was going to write about both days but we did so much in each day that I will save day two for another post.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice