Glorious Kew

I spent a wonderful day with the Green Patch volunteers at Kew Gardens and thought you might enjoy a few images of things seen during the day. 

 

Kew is really a magical place and the current exhibition of sculptures by David Nash was inspiring!

Happy Endings

In October I was delighted to attend the Northamptonshire Community Foundation's Annual Award Ceremony as two projects I worked on had been nominated - New Vistas, Wider Horizons for Back To Books was nominated for an outstanding contribution to the community in the field of Arts, Sport and Culture

and the Wellbeing Walks / Mapping Project by Beanfield Artists - (Jo Dacombe and I) was was nominated for an outstanding contribution to the community in the Transforming Lives category. We were happy to be there to celebrate with all the worthy winners!

The Green Patch "Art in the Sumerhouse" project has come to it's conclusion with all the art works having been installed and a great party on the site last Friday. You can see what we made on the Miles & Dacombe Photo Stream

Beanfield Artists "Light Walks For Dark Days" Project will be concluding in December and our exhibition of the project will open on Thursday 20th December and run until 6th January at Market Street Mews, Kettering.  There will be more details on the Undiscovered Networks Blog in the near future. We are planning a splendid shop installation which will reflect the walks and interventions we have created since the project began last October. Jo and I hope to see you there!

Lost and Found - a Walk

Postcards - Woolsthorpe Manor

Saturday hits its stride

Small businesses sparkle shyly

Setting out their wares

Exiting Nottingham

Heading for Lincolnshire

 Boarding our craft

At 11.40 unlikely astronauts

Bereft of luggage

We leave this earth

via the water bucket

primordial soup

In the still orchard

Newton offers an apple

The Flower of Kent

Star shaped blemishes

Spangled ruby windfalls

Destined to fill pies

Interior shots

Artfully forbidden fruit

Here is temptation

Newton's cat

Stretches keeping the cosmos

At a curved claws' length

Gravity Project

Postcards - Grimsthorpe Castle

In Grimsthorpe arches claim

Marcel Duchamp may well be

In the library

You will find us in

The walled vegetable garden

Under holly trees

Beneath the archway

Neptune beckons, planets spin

Turning tides, liquefying the light

Postcards - Ayscoughfee Hall

Your younger body

Referencing

Their Isabella

Small basket in hand

Window framed and shadow lined,

Old stone, new insights

Her lover entranced

By dribbled words, transcribes her

Digital image

In the stone corner

Another transcriber crouches. Hold.

Catch. Breathe quietly

A whirling woman

Wears battered baggage lightly

Heel. Toe. Point. Move. Halt.

Cradle, stretch, tread this

Stately dance, timeless, graceful

Winding fibres taut

She is the action

A constant wool-gatherer

Axis, anchor, end point

Patient, persistent, 

Winding and unwinding the

Endless, captive thread