Jupiter Artlands

August 2018

Jupiter Artland 

Life Mounds Charles Jencks

We were en route to Dunbar to see friends when I asked them for recommendations for garden visits.

My friend knows my interests well and suggested Jupiter Artlands, and so after a few aborted attempts to discuss it, it was finally agreed and online tickets purchased. I was convinced we had to have tickets purchased before rocking up, but I might be wrong... and there are carers tickets as well as disabled so we ended up paying for only the kids. Result! Especially as I paid, or did I?...

Hubby did his usual bit of not using my blue badge and we must have walked through the spacious reserved area several times over the afternoon. Hey ho! We’ll know for another time.

Life Mounds Charles Jencks

Husband across the reflective water

Squeaky points...

The Rose Walk Pablo Bronstein

And I have a feeling we will go back. Jupiter Artlands is currently having its 10-year anniversary, and I recognized the wonderful Charles Jencks’ curving landscape of grassy mounds and reflective water. We actually ended up spending a lot longer in the Artlands than we thought we would but I was having a better day with less pain and it meant we were able to follow the curving paths and see a lot of the current artworks and a ghost trail of artworks that have been exhibited over the ten years. Refreshingly, sculptures can be clambered over and examined from all different angles.

Weeping Girls Laura Ford

The Temple of Apollo Ian Hamilton Findlay
I make no apologies for this
instance of placing ourselves
in the artwork.

Ian Hamilton Findlay's Xth Muse

Landscape with Gun and Tree
 Cornelia Parker

The kids loved the discovery aspect of finding sculptures among the trees and borrowing my camera to take their own arty shots – in fact, I went through the over 100 pics and I couldn’t remember which ones were mine! It also means you will see some of me for the blog. 

The path under the trees sometimes had roots, making it a bit less friendly for a chair-user but they may have had motorized chairs available – they seemed to have made lots accessible but not all. I was struggling with stairs on the holiday but it wasn’t going to stop me, only slow me down. And I did visit an upstairs gallery, climbing very slowly I admit.

An afternoon snack of sandwiches and a treat of cakes later and it felt like a perfect holiday afternoon. 

Rivers Tania Kovats
I loved the peaceful setting here

Inside the Rivers boathouse

Stone Coppice Andy Goldsworthy

Map of the Jupiter Artlands

By the time we got round to
The Light Pours Out Of Me
by Anya Gallaccio, I stayed
above while  the family
went in...

Going back to the car we also passed pigs (and the girls loved their spots) and sheep – it is part of a working farm after all.

Stone Coppice Andy Goldsworthy

We left in the early evening and went out the way we came in – having realized we had actually come in the exit (meeting cars which weren't expecting us!) and discussing all we had seen.

And my blog always includes some roses...

The trees are often quite spectacular.

Quarry Phyllida Barlow

Detail of The Light Pours
Out Of Me,  Anya Gallacio