Poppies from the Weeping Window

In 2014  there was  a display of poppies at the Tower of London

to remember the  100 year anniversary of the First World war,
 not every one was able to visit our capital city to see this awesome display.

Between 2015 and 2018 venues were chosen all around the UK

for  two  Poppies sculptures to go on Tour

On Tuesday this week we were able to go and see the 'Weeping Window'

at Carlisle Castle.

On the left the view of the castle as we walked over the green, you can see the poppies falling from the turret. 

This visit was awe inspiring and I created a page  in my journal for me to remember the occasion

I used, brusho colours on  a wipe to for  the background,
using stamps, stencils, scraps of

leaf die cuts and a fussy cut watercoloured stamped poppy.
I also stamped the quote which I think was a good one to use for the page.
We must never forget .

I will be joining friends over at
 Art Journal Journey
and Gill's theme of...... Inspired by'...............

Here are a few photos of the sculpture

This photo is the entrance to the Keep just on the right side a the stone staircase. I missed most of this from the photo as I was trying to avoid   getting people in the photo.
So it was a hot day and there were a few stairs to negotiate to get onto the castle walls, but in the next photo you can see
that [for me] it was well worth going up.

You could walk under the arc of poppies  on  the castle wall,
before it tumbled over to sweep down the  lower wall and onto the grass.











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