Roman Villa, Bancroft Park

Today we went to a place called Bancroft Park to see a Roman Villa.

We went on our bikes to get there and we rode about 6 and a bit miles.

All we could see of the villa were stones sticking out of the ground in a square shape. There was also a big square hole with a bit of water inside it, but there was in some places with no water.

The mosaic that we previously photographed in the shopping center, came from here.

By Heidi

Frog clock Christopher Kit Williams, Shopping Center

This sculpture was made by a man called Christopher Kit Williams. He was born in April the 28th in 1946 in Kent, England.
Hanging from the base of the clock is a large wooden fish that bows out bubbles every half an hour.

There are 2 balls that were painted in a shiny golden colour.

It is made out of wood, then painted over with lots of different colours, which were polished.

Daddy made us go up the escalator several times to get the picture.

By Heidi

This sculpture is called 3B Series No 6.
It was designed by Bernard Scottlander.

This sculpture was made of painted steel

The part of this sculpture that I liked was the steps leading up to the top the sculpture.

This sculpture was donated to the MK council.
It was placed in Public Gardens behind City Church.

We have photographed 3 other sculptures by Bernard Scottlander and I think this will be the last one because we haven't seen any other sculptures by him yet.



By Olivia

Christmas Cracker - Shopping Center

It is Christmas time.

This picture is of us in front of a Christmas cracker. We were standing in a cafe. We were at the top of the cafe. And the cracker was massive.

By Gracie May

‘River of Light’ 2010 Vanessa Dell, (Lead Artist), Bletchley Leasure Centre

This piece of art is called River Of life. This art is of a river going into light. The river represents leisure and fun because in the olden days people did not have swimming pools, so instead they went swimming in rivers. It is made out of fiber-optic, marballs, stone and paint.

We saw this this art out-side the Bletchley Leisure Center and we thought it would look good for our website.

I think the snow looks really nice and we want more of it.

By Heidi

Unknown, Sherwood Drive, outside Challange House

The sculpture that we photographed this week is like anther sculpture that we have seen and plan to photograph. I think that the two sculptures are by the same artist, but I could not find any information about today's sculpture on the Internet. The two sculptures look alike because they both have steps leading up to the top and I think they look like the steps up to a climbing frame. All three of us wanted to climb it but it was wet.

The two sculptures are different because the sculpture we have photographed today is orange and the sculpture that we have seen is white. The white sculpture is by Bernard Scottlander and we have photographed two other sculptures by him which are in the same place as the white one. By Olivia

Fireworks, Bletchley Park. Nov 6

There were lots of fireworks. They were big. It was a day after fireworks night that it happened.
I think that the fireworks were not art because art does not go in the air.

By Gracie

2MS series No 4: Bernard Schottlander, 1968-70 Public Gardens, Witan Gate

This sculptures name is 2MS series No 4 and is in Witan Gate in the Public Gardens. It is made by an artist called Bernard Schottlander. It is made out of Painted Steel.

The artist has done many other sculptures including the red sculpture made out of the same materials that is called 3B series No 2. It is the second sculpture from Bernard Schottlander that we have photographed. There is another artwork at the same place painted white that we will photograph soon.

The unusual thing about this sculpture is that when you look from different angles it looks like it is another sculpture.

By Heidi

Embrace: John Wragg, 1966 Grafton Park

Happy 50th Blog Entry

This sculpture is called Embrace and the artist who made the sculpture is called John Wragg.

My opinion of the sculpture is that it was dirty and could of been a bit cleaner.
I think where the sculpture was placed was great because you could see the sculpture from the road.

I think the sculpture looks like a an electricity power maker where it goes in one way and then flows into the ground. The gap at the top in the middle makes the electricity look like you can see it flow. Dad says I am thinking of a spark gap.

The sculpture was first placed in King's road in London. It had been vandalized many times. Sainsbury decided to buy it and they have put it in Grafton Park.
By Olivia

It's our 50th blog entry today. Hip hooray.

Great - Olivia xx

Its great - Heidi X

Fabulous xxx - Gracie

Congratulations and well done girls - You have all amazed me with your excellent blog. Good luck for your next 50 entries - Dad xxx

3B series No 2: Bernard Schottlander, 1968-70 Public Gardens, Witan Gate

This sculpture is orange-red and it was wet at the time we went. I think it looks a bit like a symbol because it is in the shape of a M when you look from a angle. When I was there I thought that the area that the sculpture was in looked like a maze because it has lots of tall bushes and with lots of bunches of trees that were tiny and dotted around.

Bernard Scottlander was the man who made this sculpture, and was born in Germany died in 1999.    

By Heidi

Bounding Bull, Dominic Benhura, 2005, MK Open university

The artist Dominic Benhura was born in 1968 in Murewa.
What I thought was interesting about the bull was that a bull doesn't usually have a hump so it makes the bull look like it has a seat on the back .
I like the way that Dominic has contrasted the colours so that it looks like he has made patches for the bull.

Olivia

Lights, The Hub - Unknown

We photographed this art on Friday on the way to Daddies house.

We took this picture because it was of lights and it needed to be dark to see them.

Daddy sat on the floor with bare arms in the cold. Olivia and Heidi were cold and wanted to keep their hoods on.

I think lights being art weird.

By Gracie

Obelisk, Higrove hill, Loughton

This is a picture of us standing in front of an obelisk. It is a narrow and four sided sculpture, tapering and ending in a pyramid like shape at the top of it.

We came across the obelisk when we went for a bike ride a couple of months ago.

After we had photographed the sculpture we went to a really good park which had lots of good things to play on.

Goose Sculpture, Unknown, Bletchley Park

This picture is of us in Bletchley park with a goose sculpture. The writing below the goose says "The geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled" and was written by a wartime prime minister called Winston Churchill.

The geese represents the Bletchley park code breakers, and the golden eggs represent the German secrets that they kept.

Learning Together: Ray Castell 2009. Open University Campus - Walton Hall

This sculpture was made from rock called marble. I like this sculpture because I like the feel of it.

By Gracie.

Circle of Light: Liliane Lijn, 1980 Midsummer Arcade

This sculpture is called Circle Of Light.

We decided we should photograph this sculpture because it was the near and because it was the raining. The sculpture is in the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.

To take the picture with me and my sisters, we had to stand next to the wind chimes and our dad sat on the floor.

We had a big big break in the holidays because we went on our holidays to Swanage first, then Devon then Germany.

By Heidi

Equatorial Sundial, Wendy Taylor 1981-82. Cable & Wireless, Bletchley

This the sculpture is called the Equatorial Sundial . It was designed by Wendy. Their is also a sundial in London but it is a bit different to the Equatorial Sundial it is called the Timepiece.
I thought it looked like a satellite.

Wendy Taylor has made Timepiece, the Compass bowl and the Opus and also she has designed many more.
We have photographed the Octo and Essence and the Equatorial Sundial which was also made by Wendy Taylor.

We asked the security wether we could photograph the sundial because it was on private property.

By Olivia

Church Cross: Alan Evans, 1991 Church of Christ the Cornerstone

This piece of art is on the top of the church.

To get us in the picture we stood on a curvy bench and it helped a lot because we had taken the picture so that our heads were next to the art.

I don't think it is art on the top of a church because it is more like a cross.

The Meeting: Nicolas Moreton, 1995 City Square, outside Marks and Spencer

This sculpture was outside the Milton Keynes shopping center. We had noticed that it was shaded behind the bush of flowers.

The sculpture was made out of stone and there was also little golden bits made from gold paint. We knew it was not real gold because it would cost millions of pounds if it was. The sculpture was Egyptian Hieroglyphs. In the circle there was North East South West and the sculptures were pointing at the South direction.
By Heidi

Gnomon (Shadow Caster): Peter Bowker, 1994. Campbell Park

This sculptures is in Campbell park on the cricket pitch. It looks like a wicket for cricket, with a ball on the wicket saying that the player is out.
I thought that the sculpture was dirty and could of been a bit cleaner.
I think the sculpture was in a good place because everybody can see it.
The wicket legs are straight and round but these were not.
There were seats on the grass and they were very steep but we ran down them anyway.

By Olivia