Glass artist, Dale Chihuly, is back at Kew Gardens, for the first time since 2005. I have been lucky enough to see a few pieces of his work before, but this is the first full exhibition I’ve had the chance to get to.
His works are placed around the botanic gardens, some inside, some outside. It opened yesterday, 13 April, and will be on until 27 October. If you are within reach, be sure to add it to your must do list for 2019.
I’ll take you on a longer exploration soon…..
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 14 April 2019
Posted as part of Photo a Week
Travel with Intent 
He created an amazing piece for the Salt Lake City Olympics that stands in the foyer at Abravanel Hall where the Utah Symphony performs. It’s like looking at a tower of fire. Wonderful post!
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That sounds a great sight
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Fantastic. I will be in London at the end of May and I will go to see this for sure!
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I so love his work! I’ve been fortunate to see it in a number of places including Kew some years ago and an enormous installation at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens a few years ago, featuring some of these very beauties.
janet
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His work is amazing, isn’t it! I’ve only seen a few of his pieces before, and missed his previous one in Kew. You’re very lucky to have seen so much.
The one I really wished I had seen was in Venice – can you imagine ?!!!
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That would be fabulous!
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My wife pointed this out to me and said she wanted to go, so I suspect I will be seeing them soon.
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You’ll love it – and for a real treat, they are doing illuminated evening shows in late summer.
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We have some “red reeds” at our museum here in Richmond VA
and in the summer they have green foliage – similar to your installation shots – well not exactly – but red sure does look great with green – and I have never seen those curly things in the last photo – looking forward to your next shares of this cool exhibit.
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The close up is one of his suns
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ooooo – really cannot wait to see more – 🙂
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I love his work and would love to travel there to see it
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I was impressed at how much of his work was there, and the settings are excellent. The weather wasn’t kind to me yesterday and I didn’t fins all of his work, so I’ll definitely be back
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Oh, brilliant, you’ve seen Chihuly’s glass in person….. I saw a snippet on TV, but it’s not the easiest place for me to access, alas. Looking forward to another post from you, Debbie!
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Accessibility is well addressed in the gardens. But I didn’t study the train to platform or platform to street situation.
Let’s find a way though!
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Yay! Sounds like a brilliant plan!
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