Lanercost Priory Gate
Lanercost ruins
Lanercost PriorySpent the weekend in activity connected to the LYC Museum in Cumbria near Brampton.
Li Yuan-chia had a space in Banks on the Roman Wall where he lived and worked and exhibited other artists work for many years in the seventies and eighties.
My friend Paul Martin visited many times and showed his work there as did David Nash, James Hugonin, the Ward family, Joel Fisher and many many others.
We spent Sat afternoon clearing the drive in front of the house and around the back. It was wild and overgrown. I picked seven wild flowers from around the property at Banks and then Paul and I put them on Li' s grave at Lanercost Priory, a beautiful serene place.
We then went to Heads Nook south of Brampton to Jeremy Latimers old mill house for delicious appetizers and a talk on the future of the LYC Museum. Guy Brett and Nick Sawyer, the trustees, told of the past several years and what has been accomplished. Mark Wilson, of CLEAR spoke and several others also. It was a good beginning and there was plenty of interest. Many artists and other people want to support the endeavour. Simon Patterson was vociferous and had good ideas and Jeremy Latimer has a great deal of positive energy.
On the Sunday we went to the Lowood Gallery near Armathwaite and saw an exhibtion of Li Yuan-chia's work which was very interesting and continued conversations started the day and evening before. On the way there we drove over the Pennines and Eden Valley visiting Long Meg and her daughters, and saw some of the Auden country.
I especially enjoyed meeting Tom Pickard, Josephine Dickinson and Liliane Lijn again as well as learning more about what the future could hold for LYC.
Li Yuan-chia had a space in Banks on the Roman Wall where he lived and worked and exhibited other artists work for many years in the seventies and eighties.
My friend Paul Martin visited many times and showed his work there as did David Nash, James Hugonin, the Ward family, Joel Fisher and many many others.
We spent Sat afternoon clearing the drive in front of the house and around the back. It was wild and overgrown. I picked seven wild flowers from around the property at Banks and then Paul and I put them on Li' s grave at Lanercost Priory, a beautiful serene place.
We then went to Heads Nook south of Brampton to Jeremy Latimers old mill house for delicious appetizers and a talk on the future of the LYC Museum. Guy Brett and Nick Sawyer, the trustees, told of the past several years and what has been accomplished. Mark Wilson, of CLEAR spoke and several others also. It was a good beginning and there was plenty of interest. Many artists and other people want to support the endeavour. Simon Patterson was vociferous and had good ideas and Jeremy Latimer has a great deal of positive energy.
On the Sunday we went to the Lowood Gallery near Armathwaite and saw an exhibtion of Li Yuan-chia's work which was very interesting and continued conversations started the day and evening before. On the way there we drove over the Pennines and Eden Valley visiting Long Meg and her daughters, and saw some of the Auden country.
I especially enjoyed meeting Tom Pickard, Josephine Dickinson and Liliane Lijn again as well as learning more about what the future could hold for LYC.
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