<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hepworth-gallery2nov16.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4087 alignright" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hepworth-gallery2nov16-300x200.jpg" alt="hepworth-gallery2nov16" width="300" height="200" /></a>It's a while since I've met up with Caitlin and Tessa so a get together at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield was a new experience for us all.

It's a grey building in a grey environment. I'm not sure whether the intention is to play down the outside so you are more inspired by the exhibits. It didn't work for me.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hepworth-gallery1nov16.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4088 alignleft" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hepworth-gallery1nov16-300x225.jpg" alt="hepworth-gallery1nov16" width="300" height="225" /></a>The exhibits are interesting. Of course Barbara Hepworth's sculptures are well known and the gallery shows not only her finished pieces but some of the moulds that were used to produce the bronzes.

I'm not always inspired by abstract sculpture and some of this didn't excite me.

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<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hepworth-gallerynov16.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4089" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hepworth-gallerynov16-300x225.jpg" alt="hepworth-gallerynov16" width="300" height="225" /></a>One room was full of this structure that you could walk underneath. It was multifaceted so that below it was dark and menacing and above it was bright and intriguing.

Probably the most fascinating item in the gallery. We spent more time in the cafe catching up with what's been going on than we did wandering the galleries.

On the way home I called in on Tim and Wid (college friends) for dinner which was a great ending for an interesting day.