Gallery Oldham 9th June 2011

The Language of Flowers
We were introduced to the new Natural History Curator Patricia Francis who presented the exhibition to us. Thw audio description was given byChris Berry and Jennifer Vickers helped us as well during the talk.
There was a wax sculpture of a red poppy in a glass case together with a pressed flower and a book opened at an illustration of apoppy.
Another exhibit was of Honeysuckle and a platter in percelain decorated with the flower , again together with a pressed flower and ab ilustration.
Chris described a model of daisies which had bees pinned to thepetals and looked quite real from a distance.
When we adjourned to the education suite where we enjoyed drinks and biscuits. Patricia passed around an orange poppy for us to handle and also a poppy seed.
There was also an illustrated book but unfortunately I was unable to see it well enough to appreciate it.
Our thabnks to Patricia, Chris and Jennifer for organising a visit and to Mary and her volunteers for collecting us from home and making our viit possible
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