Art Galleries

I’ve always liked visiting museums and art galleries.  That’s what my boss arranged as a going away party for my retirement: a tour of the Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum (I strongly recommend).  And my travel buddy LL knows I like these so kindly goes along with me when we travel (pretty sure she enjoys them too, don’t get me wrong – but I don’t think they’d be her first choice as a rule).

But just recently I’ve had the opportunity to visit a couple of galleries with my youngest sister (Cork Ireland and Georgetown Ontario), and it’s very interesting.  She’s an artist, so she looks at art (paintings in particular) in a different way, and I’m really enjoying it.  So when both she & sibling #2 independently found and suggest the Oeno Gallery in Bloomfield I was delighted.

Wow, what an amazing venue!  We really enjoyed the spectacular outdoor sculpture garden – it’s huge, different, interactive (in places), and they even have a sister piece of metalwork wolves to the one at 13^th Street Winery (see Scout below a few years ago at 13^th St with her new friends). And the work inside the gallery was equally interesting.  I discovered a new artist whom I really admire and cannot afford: Pat Service.  In fact all the paintings were noteworthy, IMO.

Then off to Slickers in Bloomfield.  I don’t really like ice cream (I don’t dislike it – it’s just meh) or sweet foods, but nine years ago I had a Campfire ice cream here and it has stayed in my memory ever since.  And I had it again today – it tastes exactly like burnt marshmallows – so so good – well worth the re-visit; siblings agreed.  Then a few boutiques, and home to what the Brits call a picky tea, and our Mum’s favourite meal, a little bit of everything.