Pip Pip and Cheerio, Art Girls in London!

With one Art Girl now living in London, we are hoping for more posts from Europe.  Let this be the first. Over the Christmas/New Year holiday we went on a little road trip around the English countryside to visit Stonehenge and the converted farm house that is Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

As we probably all know, Stonehenge is one of the most important, prehistoric monuments in the world. They say it was built approximately 5,000 years ago and is thought to be a site where prehistoric people buried their cremated dead.  As we discovered, it is also visible from the highway south of London and creates quite a traffic jam.  Up close and personal, the stones did not disappoint.

For more information on Stonehenge, go to the website of English Heritage:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history/

From the prehistoric to the contemporary, about an hour south of Stonehenge is the newly renovated Durslade's Farmhouse (c.1760) aka Hauser & Wirth Somerset.  An impressive compound, H&W Somerset boasts a beautiful gallery space with changing exhibitions, a garden designed by Dutch landscape designer Piet Oudolf, outdoor sculpture, a farm to table restaurant, community art programs and artist in residency quarters.  

For more information on Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, go to their website:

http://www.hauserwirthsomerset.com/