Portsoy is a delightful small fishing village on the Moray coast, with what looked like three harbours. It was a warm day and many children and adults were sporting in the shallowest one of them.

Being picturesque, Portsoy has featured in several films and TV series.

This sculpture of a dolphin overlooks the harbours and the sea:-

This old window space in what is now a free-standing wall framed the Moray Firth coast beyond:-

Among other exhibits there are of course many prieces by Hepworth herself at The Hepworth Wakefield.

These are typical Hepworth sculpted forms:-

To left and centre; Two Forms and Three Oblique Forms:-

To right above; Three Hemispheres:-

Maquette for Sculpture for Waterloo Bridge:-

Winged Figure:-

We had an overnight stop at Wakefield on the way back up from Bath so that we could go to The Hepworth Wakefield. It was built in commemoration of artist/sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born in the town. As well as many of her works it now houses the municipal art collection started in 1923.

The building stands by the River Calder and was designed by British architect David Chipperfield.

From over River Calder:-

From walkway over the river:-

Entrance and rear:-

I took a video of the weir from the main road bridge:-

A mosaic floor found in the Roman Baths, Bath:-

Horse sculpture:-

Reconstructed and coloured sculpture. The fragments in relief (found on the site) were on display elsewhere but this is how they would have appeared in Roman times:-

Sculpture fragments:-

Reconstructed altar:-

Video representing a sculptor of Roman times. In foreground are examples and reconstructions of the work.

The Hauntings is a sculpture of a soldier, made from scrap metal. From 1/7/23 to 12/11/23 it was in the grounds of The Black Watch Museum in Perth but has since moved on. (The museum, housed in Balhousie Castle is a regular haunt of ours as it has a very good café.)

The sculpture was commissioned for the centenary of The Great War and made by metal sculpture specialists, Dorset Forge and Fabrication, “a combination of the talents of blacksmith Chris Hannam and artist Martin Galbavy.”

Sculpture with Balhousie Castle in background:-

Side view:-

Reverse view. The memorial in the background here I featured in 2019:-

I noted the jerry can on the soldier’s right hip. Jerry cans were a World War 2 phenomenon. Not that that matters.

Our last stp in the Netherlands last year was at the Hook of Holland Stena Line Ferry Terminal,

Fortunately the queue for boarding had me stopped right at the facade of the old terminal building which I had before only managed to photograph obliquely or from a distance.

Facade:-

Roof sculpture:-

Public sculpture seems to be a feature of The Netherlands. This sculpture lay to the east of John Frost Bridge:-

Just to the northeast of the bridge this building had a model cow on its roof:-

Closer View:-

This building was very 1950s-60s in style:-

An impressive looking church in Arnhem:-

One of the oddest things we saw in the Rijksmuseum was this display of woollen hats:-

A unique harpsichord he only surviving one of its type which plays one-fifth above normal pitch. Made by the Ruckers family from Flanders:-

The top floor of the museum is reserved for more modern exhibits. This biplane was designed during the Great War by Dutchman Frits Koolhoven for the British Aeronautical Transport Company:-

There was a chess set whose pieces looked like Great War crested china memorabilia but was designed by German Georg Fuhg “to glorify Nazi Germany’s urge to conquer.” It was shown in the Rijksmuseum in 1941 exhibition Kunst der Front organised by the occupier. The text in the border refers to countrie soccupied by Germany in 1939 and 1940:-

A cloth book for children which, as I recall, was made during the German occupation:-

Plaster model for the sculpture The Destroyed City by Ossip Zadkine, made to commemorate the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940. Zadkine said of it “I have sculpted tears.”:-

Roof Detail of new W Hotel, in St James Quarter, Edinburgh. For obvious reasons the building has become known as the Turd:-

Thistle sculpture on Market Street – just along from the City Arts Centre:-

Art Deco style flats on Colinton Road:-

This is Gan Canny. (It’s by Ray Lonsdale, the same artist who conceived Tommy at Seaham.)

Seemingly inspired by a poem:-