I hadn’t been to Abbot Hall for a while: time to go. There’s an exhibitions of portraits where I enjoyed looking at the way different artists used brushstrokes to represent flesh; there was almost something “paint by numbers”ish about Lucien Freud. I notice that they’re all rather beige.

A room of botanical/garden studies (I particularly liked Russell Mills’s collage) and then a history of the Abbot Hall collection from its opening in 1962. There were lots of surprises: a Ferdnand Léger lithograph of “Les Amoureux”, woodcuts by Monica Poole and a watercolour, “Greek Landscape’ by John Craxton,