Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the Cloister Gardens.
Unfortunately the toilets will not be open but there are many local cafes and the Museum has said that they will let us have some recommendations.
Please try and be prompt as the Museum is opening the Gardens specially for us. Janet's phone number for the day is 07815 772857.
Pics to janetat48ock@hotmail.com for publishing on the blog
On Tuesday 30 August we are going to the Cloister Gardens of the Museum of the Order of St John, who have very kindly agreed to let us come and sketch once again.
We are to meet at 11 o'clock at the front door of the Museum (which will be closed) where Amie will greet us again and take us round to the Cloister garden, which is the other side of the Clerkenwell Road. I think that we will have to be guided in to the Garden which does not have direct access to the outside world, so it is best if people arrive promptly.
For directions to the Museum's main entrance please go to:
To see images of the Garden, please go to:
It won't be crowded when we are there! The lovely old back wall of the church (with three medieval windows) runs along one side of the garden, and at certain times of the day (unknown at present!) it gets good shadows from next door's trees. St John's Square just outside also offers sketching possibilities.
The photo below shows the location of St John's Priory Church, the Cloister Gardens are at the back of it.
We may have clarity about the loo situation before the 30th, in which case we will update the blog. Please keep checking - and remember that the blog no longer sends automatic emails out to subscribers.
Hopefully the weather will be balmy. There are benches, but in order to get the exact view you want, please bring your sketching stool.
Janet will be collecting images of everybody's work afterwards, please email to janetat48ock@hotmail.com. Janet's telephone number for the day will be 07815 772857 and Sue's will be 07975 864142.
We look forward to another lovely day out.
14 sketchers presented themselves at the Omved Garden, Highgate's newest eco-garden. Sloping and surrounded by trees, the garden includes ponds, hedges, areas of wildflowers, a vegetable garden, a pergola, and the old glasshouses used in the Garden Centre era, now immaculately refurbished. The garden is beautifully laid out and every care is taken with it, and we are immensely grateful to Omved for allowing us to come in and create art.
The day was generally rather cloud-covered, which was a welcome relief after the dreadful heat of the previous week. Some of us focused on the structures in the garden, others on the landscape of the area, some on the massed meadow flowers, and some on individual plants. As usual, a great variety of media have been used, and some artists have worked up their drawings into paintings afterwards. We had a lovely time in the garden, and we hope that you enjoy looking at our work.
Our next sketch date is LIKELY to be Tuesday August 30th, venue to be confirmed.
Omved Garden Collection:
Image above by Priscilla Worley
Image above by Diane Umemoto
Image above by Ann Funston
Three images above by Diana Butement
Collage image above by Alison Sandifer
