It felt very good to be meeting up in the Abbey Car Park once again on Saturday 30th October, after such a long pandemic-enforced break, to board our Longmynd Travel coach to Liverpool.
38 of us, masked up for the safety of all, travelled together. In our sights were two excellent exhibitions: Walter Sickert: A Life in Art at the Walker Art Gallery, and Lucian Freud: Real Lives at the TATE. Though, once in Liverpool, some of us went further afield and enjoyed many other city highlights too.
The Sickert exhibition was wonderfully informative with a focus on Sickert’s drawings and his process involving them. Many of us took the whole morning to take it all in. On at the TATE, as well as the Freud, were exhibitions featuring Louise Bourgeois, and Lucy McKenzie which some of us visited.
The weather blessed us with sunshine, and in short, a very good time was had by all.
We were fortunate that Beverley Wightman had joined Alan in organising this trip, and that she looked after us so well on the day. We are very grateful to Beverley, who is now co-opted on to the Committee to be our Gallery Day Trips organiser. Photos are thanks to Anne Linton and Sally Blake.
We look forward to seeing you on our next Gallery Day Trip, now in the early planning stage, in 2022. Thank you to all our members and their guests who came to Liverpool for making the trip such a special one. We are back in action!