Arts Award students exhibit photographs

Sculptural seating at Rawlins..

Woodland wall art

The images below speak for themselves:

Created in just an hour from the pruning of our apple tree, raffia, old cardboard, garden string and charcoal drawings, our eco group at Mountsorrel seemed to absolutely love this activity. I think they are just beautiful.

Eco club catching rays

Sun catchers can be made from anything waterproof that reflects the sun. We used a combination of vinyl, aluminium foil and old CD's, with wire and shiny beads. The group chose a circle shape and they all added personal design features based on the type of sun catcher they wanted. These can be used to keep the bird away from seeds or hung in the window to bounce light around the room. Think twice before you throw anything away..it could be a work of art!

Chisel-it artist at Rawlins

Graeme Mitcheson (www.chisel-it.co.uk) has been working with our selected students to create designs for three new carved seats for the HUB area at Rawlins. Next week, for the whole week, Graeme is here to work with students chi selling them!

The area will be open to the public at evenings and weekends and we hope the communities that visit Rawlins will enjoy the seats for many, many years to come. I will keep you posted on progress!

Flowerpots at Cossington

I was honoured to be the judge of the Cossington recycled flowerpot competition last Friday. Among the colourful and creative entries I was delighted to see old plastic packaging transformed into so many imaginative ideas including a minature swimming pool, depictions of the weather and a cat!

All entries were displayed in the church over the weekend for Cossington Open Gardens. Well done to everyone who made a flowerpot and congratulations to the deserved winners!