I visited Warrington Museum and Art Gallery this morning and then wandered about looking for a café or teashop. Plenty of places to get coffee in the centre of Warrington but most are intent on serving all day breakfasts and similar heavy fare.
At last I stumbled across Rhode Island Coffee in the corner of Old Fish Market.
Having a pleasant but undistinguished St Clement's sponge and a similarly undistinguished large mocha.
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Then there is a galley that holds a collection called, I think, Women's Work. And it is here that I was reminded for the first time in this museum that not all art is meant to give the viewer warm fuzzy feelings. With some art you have to know the background before the work has much impact; for instance Wood's sculpture of Beatrice Cenci is just a well executed piece of craftsmanship until you know that Beatrice was executed for murdering her rapist father and that her life story became a symbol of the conflict between the ordinary people of Rome and autocratic aristocracy.
But some of the image here need less context to have an effect. Not these jumpers though
