I'm in the middle of a 2 week residency in Richmond Park. My relationship with the Holly Lodge Centre here is an old one - we reckon that I've probably led workshops on their "summer fun" programme for 10 out of the last 13 years, leading adults and children alike astray with pirates, treasures, puppets and printing. We've gone from making big flags and lanterns through various puppets and book-building to this year where we've been doing (more) pirates.
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| everything an adventurous pirate might need |
"Pirate" themes help us look at the nature trail here as a place where adventures might happen and we go off looking for resources our tiny pirates might use. We build them shelters, find them camps. We make them plastic-bottle boats to sail on the pond. Draw treasure maps inspired by the area we work in and collect natural treasures here for their chests of ill-gotten booty!
Other sessions have been drawing more directly from the Park, using leaf-rubbings and printing to give us patterned cards, cutting tree and insect silhouettes to work together to make card-lanterns. these aren't finished yet - groups returning next week for final stages....so more pictures to follow!
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| pirate camp |
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| ready for launching |
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| setting sail over wide, uncharted waters |
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| our pirates came in many sizes |
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| Richmond Park is full of wildlife |
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| leaf-rubbings |
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| enthusiastic printing |
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| I always think black-wax rubbings look the best |
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| half-finished lanterns |
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