Our next sketching day will be Tuesday 14 May 2024 when we are going to go to the St John's Wood Church Gardens. This a two-hectare local nature reserve, partly wooded graveyard, (with gravestone of watercolourist John Sell Cotman), and partly ornamental garden. The St John's Wood Church is alongside, built in the Italianate style, and with one or two (possibly) Italian cypresses in the formal garden we may be able to imagine ourselves in an Italian garden. More details here: Outside there is one of those green cabmens' shelters, shadowed attractively by trees, another subject for art.
If it is wet, we may be able to sit under the Church
Portico, or do some cafe sketching. In any case, we suggest you bring
your sketching stool and your umbrella.
There is a public loo at 5 Wellington Place. Depending on the weather, we can either have lunch at one of the cafes on St John's Wood High Street (The Good Life Eatery which does salads, etc., is just across the road from the Gardens, and if we are a large group, AT Feast might be better and we can probably book ahead that morning), or get take away sandwiches and coffee from one of the cafes which does take-aways (Laurent's is recommended) and eat lunch together in the Gardens. The green cab shelter also serves the public. It does not look as though we will starve.
The nearest tube station is St John's Wood, on the Jubilee Line. The 274 bus runs through Camden past the south side of the Church.
Hoping for a warm sunny day!
Sue's telephone number for the day is: 07975 864 142.
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