October London Visit to Anish Kapoor Exhibition

Well today was another day off so it was rather cloudy and not raining for a change so I decided to head to London to visit the Anish Kapoor Exhibition at the Royal Academy of the Arts. along the way I quickly snapped this squirrel at St James Park. Something about squirrels today I saw many.

This is just down the road from London Victoria Station.

Anish Kapoor sculpture at the entrance of the Royal Academy.
http://www.anishkapoor.com/works/index.htm

Self portrait taking photo of Anish Kapoor sculpture.

The National Portrait Gallery.

The Waterloo Bridge on the way to Somerset House to visit the Courtauld Gallery which housed some of the most famous paintings by Renoir, monet, Van Gogh to name but a few.
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/index.shtml

A falcon on the window sill of the Somerset House.

Hello blog and those who read this well now! I am now recovered from my trip to Barcelona, Rome and Venice which all 3 places have been totally amazing and inspiring. Have many ideas running around in my head for sculpture. There are 3 NEW LINKS down the right column which show some of the images taken while there.

Also I have some other images on my www.mikeldurel.com website. Mainly arty shots there. Its a crazy world here and I do miss home and looking forward to putting my feet on NZ soil in late November. The plan was to be here longer but I have changed my mind. I have no qualms about this decision as I have at least made a few dreams come true. Seeing Rome was one of them. I had always dreamed of Rome ever since studying at Art School. Italy is a beautiful place and I will visit again. There have been many new and creative things that has been getting me by. One of them is Travel Writing. During all of my trips I have reflected in now my second visual dairy the journeys the days events. When the time comes I'm sure it could easily be a small book with images of course. The other creative avenue is Photography (Digital). My eye for composition is developing more than I expected. To date I have taken over 3000 photos of my journey. I gather that there would be at least 300 of them worthy to be exhibited. I am certainly looking forward to that show. Other artforms have developed also with my drawings becoming complex and will be the basis for sculpture.