Archive

  • Garden in Summer

  • Allotment Lunch

    Yes! we grew a peach! yum yum

  • ArtFest Open Day

    We had a fantastic dayand we painted 2 new murals We made some more pinhole cameras Kim did glass painting Nick Brennan did more Beano Cartoons The artists came back on open day to show everyone their skills and a meet and greet

  • ArtFest Cartoon Drawing

  • ArtFest Mural painting – Man Eating Plants!

    I think so man eating pineapple- should we be scared? Marc showing us his techniques going freehand…. scaling up our ideas getting the idea of scale…. the we add our design for monster man-eating plants! aaaarrrggghhh…..then a background colourfirst we have to paint the boards white Mural painting looks like fun! This is one in […]

  • ArtFest Pinhole Camera Workshop

    Some amazing and quirky results We rushed it up to the campus dark rooms to process in the machines and these are our pinhole images – both negative and positive and convex then back to the dark-room sack to get the paper out We took one of the teacups Going round the garden looking for […]

  • ArtFest Media Day

    recording the sound of some new fledglings in a nest and a sucking insect… Working with Jem Mackay, sound artist, we check out all the professional recording equipment. Recording the sounds of Boot Up! is going to be fun!

  • ArtFest Printing Workshop

    we decide to make Boot Up! bunting some snakes made with sticks more buntingand a beautiful blind for The Den

  • ArtFest Wood Sculpture Workshop

    yes we think so…everyone loves the Boot Up! Deer. We are so proud of it. Having a sit down with a cuppa and a think always helps the creative process….shall we have driftwood ribs or not? and in the meantime we can make a snake with leaves as scales… The it has to be screwed […]

  • ArtFest Clay Workshop

    Such beautiful objects and we made some lovely dishes, coasters and flowers made by pressing the leaves into the clay workshop leaders, Ema and Laura took everyone round the garden looking for inspiration we got nice and messy rolling out the clay

  • ArtFest 14th – 17th June Paper Making Workshop

    The finished results were beautiful It’s child’s play…we had to ‘surf’ on the wooden board to make the paper flatten evenly Some looked like jewels pressed into the pulp We began to get more confident and started pressing the materials we had found in the garden We all had a go, it took some getting […]

  • Poppy passion

    High summer is upon us and the garden is flowering. All the hopes and dreams of the early sowing and planting are coming into flower. It is so satisfying… and beautiful.