Cathy's Art Diary

Delightful sculpture trail around Canary Wharf of guide dog sculptures decorated by various artists. The trail was to raise awareness of Guide Dogs and had been organised by them and Wild in Art. A number of the works were designed by artists with experience of sight loss and some featured tactile elements such as the black and white “Guide Lines” by Sue Guthrie where the back stripes were in a rough finish, or braille elements. I managed to see all but two of the works. I loved Becky Smith’s “Life is Golden” which looked lovely on the sunny day when I went. I think my favourite was the Sherlock Holmes dog “Baskerville” by Mik Richardson. An added bonus was chalking up my 10,000 steps, partly as I kept getting lost! Closed 17 May 2024  

Sweet sculpture trail around the London Bridge area featuring figures based on Raymond Brigg’s Snowman and decorated by contemporary artists. There were twelve figures in the trail based on the Twelve Days of Christmas and it was presented by Wild in Art, a producer of public events, in collaboration with Penguin Ventures (part of Penguin Random House UK). I only had time to find three of them as I was rushing for a train but my favourite of the ones I saw was this one by Jenny Leonard representing Four Calling Birds, a joke I didn’t get at the time! Closes 5 January 2020