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Last entry to the House is at 4.30pm
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🌿🌱 Whilst we have been closed, one of our Visitor Assistants has been carefully caring for a number of plant cuttings from the House. Read more about it in our latest blog post: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/blog #kettlesyardathome
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We love watching the trees outside Kettle's Yard change with the seasons. This photograph was taken in the Autumn of last year, when the leaves were a golden yellow colour. 🍁🍂✨
One of our security team snapped this beautiful image of the cottage garden in bloom at Kettle's Yard last week. How lovely is it looking in the sunshine?! We can't wait to return, but for now we hope you all enjoy this photograph. ☀️🌺
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Find out more about Christopher Wood's 'Flowers' (1930) with Director, Andrew Nairne in our new, short film.
'Flowers' sits in the downstairs sitting room in the House. The yellow in the painting is echoed throughout the space in Joan Miró's 'Tic Tic' (1927), in the lemon placed on a pewter dish and in the fresh flowers.
"Flowers give me more pleasure than anything and still life is the thing I like painting the best. I feel so much for still life, although perhaps it’s the thing that appeals least to the public." - Christopher Wood in a letter to his mother, 20 October, 1923.
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Christopher Wood, 'Flowers', (1930)
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Andrew Nairne, Director, introduces Christopher Wood's painting 'Flowers' (1930).Whilst we've been closed one of our Visitor Assistants has been carefully looking after a selection of plant cuttings from the Kettle's Yard House. 🌿🌱
Read more about it in our latest blog post: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/news/plant-cuttings-from-the-house/
Plant Cuttings from the House – Kettle's Yard
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Whilst we’ve been closed, Visitor Assistant Andrew Smith has been caring for a number of plant cuttings from the Kettle’s Yard House. There have always been plants at Kettle’s Yard and they are ...Our next #workoftheweek is Michael Pine's 'Construction' (1955).
It is the only work by this artist in the Kettle's Yard collection, and one of very few sculptures Pine produced.
What are artists thinking and doing now? We hope you enjoy watching the sixth in our Three Questions series, with artist Issam Kourbaj.
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Find out more on our blog: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/news/three-questions-to-issam-kourbaj/
Three Questions to Issam Kourbaj
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What are artists thinking and doing now? While we are all homebound, Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey, Acting Head of Programme of Kettle’s Yard, asks artists to ...What are artists thinking and doing? We hope you enjoy the sixth in our series of ‘Reflections from Home’. No.6: Callum Innes, Oslo, Norway.
"This Norwegian light is changing my work, especially the new watercolours. They feel especially of this time. There is a lot of silence here. I am used to a busy studio. But here there is a quietness and intimacy.”
Read the full post on our website: www.kettlesyard.co.uk/about/news/reflections-from-home-no-6-callum-innes/