Hello my lovelies!
The last place we stopped off at before arriving back at Auntie Emma and Uncle Michael's was at the Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah, New South Wales.
As you can see, this gallery is set in a beautiful part of Northern New South Wales. It's not too far from Byron Bay.
The gallery opened a new Margaret Olley Art Centre which cost around $4 million dollars to construct. The new Centre houses the 76,000 objects from the studio of artist Margaret Olley, who died in 2011 aged 88. She seems to have been a bit of a collector.
As you can see from the photographs the Centre has been built in the gallery in such a way that you peer through the windows to view the various rooms of her original home which was somewhere in the area. From what I can gather, the rooms in the Centre display the rooms of her home exactly as she left them.
Here's one of her paintings. A lot of her paintings were of scenes from inside her home.
And a lovely cuppa at this table before heading for the car and our last stop in Brisbane.
Another couple of photographs I took looking over the countryside. As you can see, it was quite smoky. We're at that time of the year when we are coming to the end of our dry winter and are getting desperate for some rain.
Actually, talking of smoke and bushfires, everyone was very nearly evacuated from the wedding as there was a fire close by. We watched the helicopters carrying their huge buckets of water past the wedding venue towards the fire which was to the left of us. Thankfully the police took pity on us all and allowed us to carry on with our celebrations.
Love Nanxxxx
Yes Nan quite a collector. The room is full!
ReplyDeleteWhenever she went out and about, she must have seen something and thought to herself "Mmm! I think I would like to paint that some time", brought it home and popped it on a surface. Before she knew it she could hardly move. Imagine 'dusting day'!
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