Taking part in the Salisbury Young people's festival, I had free reign to indulge in a totally play based workshop. 'Barbie meets Action Man and crashes into Treasure Island'. Participants were given toys, straws and lots of clay and encouraged to develop the story from there. We had sea serpents, mermaids, treasure chests, sharks and many more creatures which defy definition. A lot of truly creative fun was had and I have to say, closing the workshop was the hardest part, with Dad's in particular stretching the session out as long as possiible.
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This time of year has become the 'silly season' for me as village parades, fairs, school performances and above - a school prom - all demand extra input. Bucking the trend for expensive limos, this team of teenagers worked together to create a low budget version of their own to arrive i
Spent a lovely evening workshop with the men from a local charity for the homeless. Here we are on a previous visit to Roche Court International Sculpture centre, discussing the wonderful work of artist Michael Craig Martin.
The children of a Wiltshire school llivened up the village parade to the summer fair with some wonderful artwork - all helped by the fabulous weather for once!
Back at a local Wiltshire primary school, we have spent weeks exploring and honing our skills in paper making with beautiful results using silk dyes, leaves, glitter, sequins and just about anything we could get our hands on. Following on from this we looked at book making and made some smart little sketchbooks to record our thoughts and ideas in
Rex Whistler, born 24 June 1905, was a prolific painter, designer and illustrator with a glittering career and social life which sadly came to an end with his death during the second world war. With a fantastic exhibition of his work underway at Salisbury Museum, I worked with a number of children exploring some of the subject matter and favourite approaches of this respected British artist. While still in his childhood, sketchbooks were critical to Whistler's work and children were able to create their own sketchbook, complete with monoprinted design on the front cover. The children also enjoyed painting on plasterboard panels, reflecting how Rex Whistler often decorated entire walls with his beautiful scenes. Busy at work, in addition to painting we created monoprints using Rex Whistlers fascinating reversible faces. It was also lots of fun trying to create our own reversible masks. |
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