Yorkshire Sculpture Park - a wonderful space and perhaps too-well-kept-secret on the border of South & West Yorkshire, less than a mile from the hustle of the M1. It's hard to imagine a better place to encounter the work of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Memorable today, however, were the extraordinary reconciliations of Sophie Rider and Andy Goldsworthy's countryside reflections. 

And then there was the inspiration of Isamu Noguchi, an expansive exhibition extended into May. Having visited the wonderful Noguchi workshop in New York (actually Long Island, a short hop over the East River via Roosevelt Island) in November, I find myself even more inspired by my second visit to the YSP showing.  

Noguchi appears as a true 'Renaissance Man', a master of art forms large and small, practical and absract - theatre sets, furniture, lighting, playgrounds, bronzes, stone sculptures resembling massive Easter Island symbols. Such breadth of skill and vision seems rare in an increasingly digital throwaway recombinant world. Noguchi's art reminds me of why I admire Owsley Stanley, the Bear, jeweler, sculptor, chemist and sound engineer.