Walking and Drawing: Beverley Hicks and Phoebe
Beverley Hicks is an artist whose paintings often reflect phases in her life, mirroring her experiences and memories. Her aim is to create a specific atmosphere, predominantly through tactile paint application, the careful balancing of composition and the delicate juxtaposition of colours, shapes, symbols, and texts. http://www.beverleyhicks.co.uk Here is her approach for 'Drawing in Conversation' I will work in collaboration with my 12 year old daughter Phoebe. We live next
Music and Drawing: Nichola Harding Hope and Enfys-Haf
Nichola Harding-Hope: Is an artist who draws from live performances and has worked with the Welsh National Opera since 2005 producing works that capture the moment and energy of the moving characters on stage. (http://www.axisweb.org/p/nicholahope) Here is her 'Parental Conversation' Proposal:
At the age of 3.5 years, Enfys-Haf is a very sociable child who enjoys conversation, music and drawing with mummy. She enjoys scribbling, colouring in and forming shapes. Although she
Cross generational Dialogues: Grandad Paul, Mum Shelley, Esme and Clementine
Shelley Norton is the Director/Agent of the The Big Talent School and Agency, an independent Performing Arts School and full time Talent Agency based in Cardiff Bay. Here is Shelleys Proposal As a family we love telling each other stories. These may be things that happened in the week, or a long time ago. Or things we'd like to happen like have a picnic with a family of werewolves (one of my dads favourites). Stories we all know and have heard before or something brand new
Colour as Stimulus: Zoe Appleby and Marcus
I asked a few participants if they could send me a recording of their books either solely audio or together with images (easily done on a mobile phone) so i could actually reference examples when i speak about this project at the 'Thinking With John Berger' conference in September: WHAT A BEAUTIFULL EXAMPLE from Zoe Appleby and her son! Her aproach is simply: When my young son draws, he generally uses an explosion of colour to mark make. He's a very verbal 2 to 3 year old. As
A conversation between Seren and her Grandma
Of course this project is not only between parent and child but also Grandparent and Grandchild, using drawing to create dynamic time and space to share experiences! "I would like to use the garden as a catalyst for real & imagined scenarios. Preferably the drawing conversation would be between grandmother & child, mixing narratives or phrases interpreted through the garden world." #grandmagrandchild
