Getting out

After an excursion to Cambridge earlier this week to visit the anthropology museum with its many wonderful objects, yesterday's trip was to Chichester. By train of course - past Arundel with its castle -

and once in town, going first to Pallant House for the exhibitions by Kitaj (finishes 16 June) -

The captions were really helpful - so much going on in (and behind) the paintings

and Barbara Hepworth (the hospital drawings) -

Drawn onto panels covered with a sort of gesso - not just lines added, but surface scraped away

Many interesting works in the main collection, including Hearthstone by Andy Goldsworthy -

The weathering on the chalk boulder  was scraped away with a flint

In a cupboard, the mussel shells and velvet, remnants of Susie MacMurray's 2007 installation "Shell" -

After a nice lunch in the restaurant - not in the courtyard alas, because of the intermittent showers - 

a walk through the charming streets to the cathedral -

Daisies furled and unfurled line the path

Inside the north tower

a look round, and home again ... on the slow train.