Artist Angie Berkley raised money for the Kent Association for the Blind by having a sponsored pony tail cut. After 4 years in the making the team chopped it off in 5 minutes!   On behalf of Angie and the KAB, thank you to everyone who sponsored the trim. You can see more images from [...]

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Back from a brilliant photo shoot with visually impaired and sighted young people from the Kent Association for the Blind (KAB). Working alongside me today were professional photographers Rikard Osterlund and Sara Norling.   The aim of the day was to re-create the Rochester Cathedral fresco as interpreted by the group, making props and dressing [...]

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Join me on board Light Vessel 21 on Wed 26 October 11am-5pm to build magical Under Water and Above the Surface Worlds inside the ship, featuring glow in the dark river creatures, plants, birds and other wildlife. Get inspiration for your work by finding out what sounds and sights lurk beneath the surface of River [...]

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Join me at Light Vessel 21 on Mon 24 October 11am-5pm and help create a giant sea-chart collage of River Medway – mapping out local landmarks, your favourite spots to visit and other places of interest along the river. Personalised signage buoys for participants to make and take away. All materials provided but participants are [...]

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More exploring and working out how what to include in the finished artwork, we’ve all got different ideas. To see more images from the workshop click HERE

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Working out ideas in clay, we used the clay as a mould to cast with plaster of paris. This gives us an idea of textures and how much detail is needed. This is the first time some of the group have worked with clay and plaster and the finished plaster plaques are impressive, they will help [...]

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Now we’re off!  We’ve looked at the fresco, we’ve had an informative talk from Liz Simmons, Education Officer at the Cathedral and our brains ache a little. We’ll start with some fun bucket delving. Sitting back to back, in pairs, one person has clipboard and pen at the ready, the other a bag containing a [...]

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I am about to embark on a collaborative voyage of discovery with Rochester Cathedral. The brief from the Cathedral is “to produce an artwork inspired by the existing fresco and appropriate to a visually impaired audience”. The Fresco, in the North Trancept, was painted by Sergei Fyodorov and depicts the baptism of Jesus by John The [...]

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An exhibition of artwork by members of the Kent Association for the Blind Medway Art Group, developed in collaboration with Rochester Cathedral and Wendy Daws over a 9 month period. For more info visit the Rochester Cathedral Website. The exhibition coincides with the national event The Big Draw which is designed to raise the profile [...]

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A workshop to cast shadows and silhouettes of figures that may represent Sittingbourne of the past and of the future. These will re-produced in black paper or black fabric, I will need to fix the silhouettes to designated sites for re:bourne, so that they are in place before the Shadow Catcher sets out, in the [...]

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