Three years on and the tour is about to resume. I'll be revisiting some of the galleries I made it to briefly last time and looking at some new ones. Interest has been revived due to the recent purchase of a book by Richard Harries, a planned holiday in the North East with asociated road trip, and an exhibition at Chichester's Pallant House Gallery.
At the Pallant we were able to see Stanley Spencer's WW1 paintings currently on tour while the Sandham Chapel is being restored. Once again I was struck by Spencer's celebration of daily life in conditions of war. So different from the usual images of mud and devatation.
Harries' book has just arrived and will go with me when the trip begins. More of that later. First stop will be Birmingham where I made a rushed stop early on the original tour. Looking forward to reconnecting with the PreRaphaelites there and spending time with whatever else the City Gallery has to offer.
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