Light Creations for a Dark Day

Our last walk for the series Light Walks for Dark Days lived up to its name. A grey, misty and damp day with little contrast or colour.

This did not deter our Light Walkers however, seeing the greyness as a perfect opportunity to play with lights and flourescence - how could we introduce colour and light into the perfect backdrop of a foggy October day?

Armed with glow-sticks we set off to find dark spaces around the lake at Sywell Country Park.

There were many small gems to spot in the mist on the way.

It was great to have us all walking in a group together again, although sadly for the last time for this series of walks.

Autumn brought its colours to interrupt the greyness of the day.

Nipping into a gap in the hedge, we sneaked off the path and into the woodland. A beautiful hawthorn tree stood, its trunk in the dark and a low canopy spreading. We set to work to dress the dark space with flourescence.

Our sculptural light creations glowed quietly amongst the dark tangle of branches, appearing like floating aliens against the green.

We tried out our creations in other dark space, a natural fence in the hedgerow:

and an installation in the bird hide, the sun illuminating the colours as it caught them through the viewing slit.

It was nearly 4 o'clock when we finished circumnavigating the lake, and darker still. All the way round we had been searching for a perfect place of dark water, but had not found it. Carolyn was particularly determined to find the right place for our final installation of the day, and as we made our way back to the car park we suddenly found it! The Sheepwash running along the side of the car park took the water under trees where it was decidedly dark and made the perfect place for our final installation, floating lanterns.



Serenely bobbing along, they rode the current gently and gathered together at the root of a tree before we set them free again. Flames flared and died, turning from orange to blue.

We watched them for some time, then retrieved them from the water with bamboo canes, and left, leaving no trace but keeping our memories.

Our exhibition of the project will open on Thursday 20th December and run until 6th January at Market Street Mews, Kettering. Watch this blog for more details - we hope to see you there!

Celebrating the Green Patch

We are pleased to announce that our celebratory event for the completion of our residency at the Green Patch allotments, Kettering, will be 5-7pm on Friday 26th October at the Green Patch - and you are all invited!

It's been a lovely summer, with constantly changing weather and things growing all around us as our creative plans and ideas grew in the summer house! Come and share with us the art that our visiting participants made, as well as our completed "Weather Installation" and other works around the site that Carole and Jo have been making.

There will be a barbecue and refreshments, as well as some small items made by us to look at or purchase. There'll be a bit of a spooky theme too in keeping with the time of year and to celebrate the harvesting (hopefully) of pumpkins! Of course we'll have our gazebo just in case it rains - so wrap up warm and come along and celebrate with us! We hope to see you there.

Trying out the new barbecue in the summer!

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What's the Buzz - Latest Update on Green Patch Projects

We've been busy finishing the Weather Installation and creating our sculptures for the Green Patch, we're buzzing with excitement as more things are almost ready for our celebratory event. We can't show you everything as we want it to be a surprise but here are a few images of work in progress!

Time for tea!