Tuesday 19 November: Visit to the Museum of the Home, Hoxton

16 sketchers presented themselves at the Museum of the Home on a very grey and damp day, and we were relieved that we had not decided to take a chance on the weather being good and inflict an outdoor venue on everybody.  Despite this, several people took the outdoors as their theme, mostly through windows or frequently opening glass doors.  (One person came the following day and had better weather.) The great majority went for the warmth and sketched the many set-ups of home life through the ages in the Museum.

We then went out and had a very good Vietnamese lunch at the Song Que restaurant round the corner, and some of us went back to the Museum of the Home for further work.

We are most grateful to the Museum of the Home staff for kindly allowing us to go in and draw and paint in their fascinating building.

We won't be organising a December sketching day as everyone has so much else on at this time of year,  but we will be back with cheering trips out in January and February, with hopefully some extra sessions slotted in.

Meanwhile, enjoy our latest images below, and your later Christmas experiences.

Image above by Gill Steiner

 

 

 

Image above by Diana Marshall

 

 

 

Image above by Evgenia Osmani

Image above by Daniel Lloyd-Morgan

 

 

Image above by Ruijun Hu

 

Image above  by Peter Colley

Image above by Diane Umemoto

Image above by Janet Perkins

Images above by Janet Payne

Three images above by Audrey Rapier

 

 

Two images above by Priscilla Worley

Three images above by Diana Butement

Two images above by Sue Lees

Images above and below by Gafung Wong

                                                Image above by Sinead O'Reilly

Tuesday 19th October our visit to the Museum of the Home

Our next outing is to the Museum of the Home on Kingsland Road. This was previously known as the Geffrye Museum. It started as a collection of almshouses which were repurposed to become a series of rooms reflecting the historical furnishings of the ages. It has had two major refurbishments and extensions. One was more than twenty years ago when the architect Branson Coates introduced a new cafe in a central atrium and revamped one of the almshouse wings to include some more recent rooms, as well as a spiral stair down to some new community rooms. The next refurbishment was by Wright and Wright when the Museum was extended by creating and refurbishing the basement, again with extra rooms.

There is also a lovely historic garden at the back of the Museum. The Museum is free and they are expecting us and even have stools. Their website is www.museumofthehome.org.uk and their address is 136 Kingsland Road, E2 8EA. Hoxton Overground Station (trains from Highbury and Dalston) is almost adjacent to the museum, Old Street Station is not far away and Liverpool Street is a short bus ride or walk away.

The Museum has some quite tight spaces as the rooms and corridors in the old almshouses are very small and they have asked that we spread out to avoid blocking through routes for other visitors. No easels. 

There is a Museum cafe but we thought we should visit Song Que at 134 Kingsland Road, which is a popular and reasonably priced local Vietnamese restaurant, very close to the Museum on Kingsland Road. I will reserve a table, but at lunch time they should be able to accommodate us.

Meet in the entrance to the Museum at 11 am

And finally a late image from St Mary le Strand from Audrey Rapier