The Italian Gardens inside Kensington Gardens
Every statue needs a bird to sit on its top/head.
Statue of Edward Jenner by William Calder Marshall
The Arch 1979–1980 is a large stone sculpture by Henry Moore located in Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park, London. It was given to the park by Moore in 1980. The Arch was found to be unstable in 1996, and was subsequently dismantled and placed into storage. It was restored and replaced in its original location in 2012.[1]
Serpentine Sackler Gallery | Serpentine Galleries
www.serpentinegalleries.org/about/venues/serpentine-sackler-gallery
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery opened in 2013. It is located in a former 1805 gunpowder store, five minutes walk from the Serpentine Gallery across the Serpentine Bridge. Below gallery and cafe.
Rose Wylie is the artist whose work is currently on display at the gallery.
Rose Wylie (born 1934, UK) finds visual material for her large-scale paintings in a wide range of sources: from art history, cinema and comic books, to daily observations, news and celebrity stories. Her images are often painted through the filter of her memory, using text to anchor recollections and facts and editing slippages in the compositions by overlaying new pieces of canvas, like a collage. Imbued with wit and economy of line Wylie’s canvases are confident and energetic, proposing new perspectives on the world and the plethora of images in our cultural memory. This will be Wylie’s first institutional solo exhibition in London. 
Despite its prominence in the gallery, I could not find anything about this painting itself. If you look closely you will see that the sky is filled with airplanes and is listed as "Air Raid 1940." The bottom half of the painting is of the garden as it is now and must have been for decades. Since Wylie was born in 1934, it seems unlikely that she is remembering the sky over London in 1940. However, the information about her says that she draws from her memory and cinema for subjects for her paintings.
The Sackler museum started life in 1805 for the storage of gunpowder. At that time most of Europe was engaged in battle against Napoleon.
Hyde Park in the winter. I had never noticed the circular globes on the street lamps before.
I was curious about the two buildings shown here on the map. Without its information, I would never have guessed that this was an old police house. The Lodge seems self evident.
The slope of the roof interested me. Between the windows is an area where rain would naturally run off.
Listed as a stately home.
Flashback - The Old Police House in 1960
New Lodge
A fun photograph I came across to Hyde Park in 1905
Lunch at the Sussex Fish and Chips close to Paddington Station
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