The Millennium Gallery Sheffield has an extensive exhibition of watercolours and it's free entry. As always the knowllege-college edificated conservation minded curators have set the lighting so low that you'd be well advised to have your miners lamp handy. I suppose having such lumination is sort of traditional in this neck of the woods it once being ther mining captital of the UK; no longer the case thanks to Iron-Draws Maggie T - I won't explore that any further lest I offend ...
The exhibition is very good and I particularly enjoyed the less traditional Turnerish reportage pieces which have a more gouche like look. No doubt I'll have a squiz again.
The Continental Markets are in full swing this w/e so we had a wander without buying anything - I think it's still a bit of a novalty to the locals the market being "Continental" in nature - we're funny lot we Brits; admitting that we're a part of the continent (Europe) is still a tad hard to do ...
After trawling the art supply shops we bought most of the basics for daubing and sticking so that we should have no excuse not to be making arty "things". The appartment has a north facing window-wall so the light is excellent for working.
We can also report that being an oldie-with-a-bus-pass is excellent - no car needed ...
It's better to travel than arrive ... then again ...