The Just Sew Stories Exhibition at The Rooftop Arts Centre April 2019

This was a lovely opportunity for people to see each others completed work, read their stories and to share the work with the wider community.

Poster and previous photos by Warren Shaw - The Rooftop Arts centre

A premature birth with a happy ending

Sharing a love of books with her Grandchildeen

The 13 sequins represent 13 children

Inspired to read by J K Rowling and sharing this love of reading and all things harry Potter with children learning to read in a local school

This maker was The Cat Who Walked by herself at school.

"The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him."

“This, O my Best Beloved is a story – a new and wonderful story – a story quite different from the other stories”― Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

This story was dedicated to Gertrude Jekyll

Remembering the strong women in her 

family and life in Jarrow and Corby

The tale od three sisters - Evacuees from Birmingham

Sharing the space, enjoying the show.

This project was devised and delivered by The Eloquent Fold, artists Carole Miles and Phiona Richards with funding from Northamptonshire Community Foundation - The Constance Travis Endowment Fund. Many thanks to Swan Gardens for welcoming the group into their warm and inviting social spaces and to all the wonderful people at The Rooftop Arts centre who who helped to hang and publicise the show.

A Fall of Feathers

Since June I have been creating a series of Wellbeing, Mindfulness and meditation walks for Back To Books, supported by NStep and funded by Northamptonshire Community Foundation. These images are from walk 5 - Touch at Warkton Church. My temporary Installation for the walk is called A Fall of Feathers.

Read about the Walk and Installation here

See all the photos here

One of My Panels is Missing

Sad to report one of the panels I made for the Brampton Valley Way has been stolen. If you find it in a ditch or see it gracing someone's garden I'd love to know. Oh and just in case it was the gold tiles that attracted your magpie eye and light fingers, the gold tiles are not real gold, just foiled glass. For the full story click here

If anyone has any information about the theft of this public artwork please contact Park Ranger Dan Hurst  0160 - 488 9478 or report any suspicious activity near the panel to Northamptonshire Police Force. 

The project was made possible with funding raised by Back To Books a not for profit community organisation and 

Marking A Fine Line Finally Installed!

It's been quite a long journey from idea to installation

I've worked with many lovely people and you can 

read about Back To Books and all who took part here

Most of all I must thank my wonderful volunteers Carolyn, Ricky and Mark who took such care in creating the woodwork and gave so much time to the installation and to the Green Patch for letting us use a poly tunnel this winter as a temporary workshop. It fill my heart to think of all the time and effort they gave!

Also huge thanks to Ranger Dan Hurst

 who got us up and down the 

Brampton Valley way in many variable weathers!

The Frost panel was the trickiest to install

but with Spring in full swing,

blossom appearing along the Way,

 

lambs and lush greenery

 

don't let the moss grow under your feet

take to your bikes and ride!

More photos here

Off to Alstonefield!

Artist Jo Dacombe and I organised a Light Walks Residential in Alstonefield, made possible with invaluable assistance from NStep, Northamptonshire Community Foundation and Kettering Rotary Club Huxloe. You can read about our walks on the links to our Undiscovered Networks Blog interspersed amongst the following images.

Memories of Alstonefield

The Night Walk

The Big Walk

The Farewell Walk

Mapping Our Experiences

We hope to continue to develop exciting projects, as a small organisation we need your help! On October the 15th Local Giving will be running another Grow Your Tenner Campaign. Through Localgiving.com’s Match Fund campaigns, everyone can make a difference. A matched donation boosts the impact local charities can have on our communities.

Here’s how match funds work:

£10.00     Your donation+ £10.00      

Donation matched by Localgiving.com + £2.50      

Gift Aid (For UK taxpayers) £22.50

After a small processing fee, your £10 single donation with Gift Aid means the charity receives £21.54! A £10 donation without Gift Aid means the charity receives £19.16.

You can read more about the campaign here

and you can support us as Beanfield Artists on our Local Giving Page here

Back To Books will also be able to benefit from this campaign and you can find their page here