Yorkshire Sculpture Park

I've extolled the virtues of YSP many times on this blog and frankly, I'm going to do it again now! Despite the fact the parking charge has rocketed from £5 to £7.50!!!

Chris and I visited the weekend before last and mercifully it only rained on us twice! YSP is always a wonderful afternoon out though, whatever the weather- there's usually something new to see every few months in addition to all the regular sculptures that live there full time.

This year and last YSP has also opened up walk ways all around the Lakes which used to be closed off to visitors, but now make an excellent addition to the park. I can not recommend YSP enough and below are some photos to illustrate my point, taken over various visits- I've got tons more but didn't want to upload them all!

This is the 'Bonnet' by Ursula Von Rydingsvard. It doesn't look like anything special but once you step inside the way the daylight illuminates the interior is really beautiful, and there's a rather cold and echoy feel to it.

These are the wonderful seated men by Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. I think they're great- eerie and foreboding. Like a line of spectators just staring at you, silent and unresponsive- unnervingly.

Chris sitting in the newly accessible Greek temple, with stunning views over the lake. This is in part of the newly opened wooded walk ways that were previously closed off to visitors.

A view of the house from another part of the newly- opened- to- visitors area, with lots of evil Canadian geese on the foreground!

A magnificent sculpture by Anthony Caro. One of my faves.

Garbage tress by Dennis Oppenheim. I think these are fantastic!

Pictures of the marvellous 'Family of Man' by the wonderful Barbara Hepworth- one of my absolute favourites at YSP (more on the Barbara Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, in a future post).

William Turnball in the informal garden.

I've got literally tons of pictures from YSP, so will stop there. My other favourites include all the Henry Moores, Sophie Ryder's giant Hares and Elisabeth Frink's men.

At the moment, in addition to the Miro residency and William Turnball sculptures in the formal garden, you can catch an exhibition of Anish Kapoor's work called 'Flashback', which is very good and well worth the walk up to the Longside Gallery.

For full information on YSP and everything YSP related visit their website at http://www.ysp.co.uk/home.