Telling stories through art and play is a wonderful creative process that people of all ages can enjoy. Art can refine our senses, brings clarity from chaos and can engage even the shyest of participants.
The gentle flow, sound and movement of nurdles is relaxing.
A child's model of a fisherman
Picking out the range of colours of ocean plastic and using it to create a colour wheel.
After school art clubs
A tern standing on a rock looking out to sea. The bird is made using plastic fragments and the rock is painted polystyrene.
Yellow crab enjoying a seafood feast.
Group work; Crayon trails and ocean plastic decoration
Blue Googly eyed fish with red lips swimming along the sea bed.
Fishing above a sea cave which is hidden by seaweed. A crab hides within the cave.
.Me and my son made this polar bear Easter bonnet hat using a plastic milk bottle, mod rock, toy broken hard hat (found on the beach) and ocean plastic fragments. The theme was 'Global warming' in 2015.
A journey through a garden with connecting paths brings Art to life and creates an opportunity to tell stories and create characters within the setting.
This was a family art session, using a wide range of materials such as pasta, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, card, stones, paint and clay to create a garden linking all the gardens together with their paths to set the scene for a wonderful journey and story.
Volcanic island with Black dragon guarding it. The boat and white dashed line, using cotton bud sticks, indicates the path to the treasure which is marked with X. (The dragon and it's wing is thought to be from the shipping container lego spill in 1997.)
Aerial view of harbour with stone walls and a variety of boats.
A giant friendly octopus, sailing boat and para glider on a sunny day. Bottle top rings were used to make the rays of sunshine and the octopus legs.
Mummy whale and son find a treasure chest and in her excitement she shoots water from her blow hole.
Plane flying acrobatically over swelling sea with pink sea monster sends a message to Kathy using exhaust trail.
School paper craft displays 2009 Healthy School Week
Origami bugs, bee hive and fruit. Daffodil flower hat and paper mache bust decorated with magazine cuttings and orange hair made out of sea-rope.