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Author Archives: Jane Porter
A nest of birds
The children in my Friday art group at Singlegate Primary School have been making their papier mache birds – here’s a nestful, and there are many more. They are inventing names and personalities and stories for the birds, and will be making books about them for the school library. One is a sumo bird, and another wears tiny glasses.
Jellyland
I’ve been at the London Print Studio making a screenprint – lots of little people living in giant jellies. Unfortunately I had lots of technical hitches so the prints didn’t come out as well as I had hoped. But I like the fluorescent colours.
Painting in the park
Spent the day at Morden Hall Park with the School Arts Partnership groups from Cricket Green and Wimbledon Chase schools – each child had a canvas and painted from life outdoors – lots of fun and some really interesting results.
Buttonbirds
I’m back at Singlegate Primary School in Colliers Wood this term – this time the project is to enhance the library on a theme of birds. Step one: making these papier mache birds to hang in a flock – they have a button on the base to hold the wire in place…we’ll also be making bird books, a nest-like wall hanging and cushions. The children had some nice ideas to make clouds, rain and eggs too.
Letterpress plans
I went to visit Ross at JMG studio to look at the letterpress equipment. We are planning a letterpress collaboration based on the river poems made by the families I worked with earlier in the year at Morden Hall Park.
Jellytime
Shhh!
Glass slugs and other delights
I spent the afternoon sketching at the Grant Museum of Zoology, part of University College London. It’s an amazing collection of zoological specimens and other oddities, such as the mid-18th century Blaschka glass specimens – beautifully detailed life size models of snails, slugs, jellyfish and squid. Other favourite items included a disembodied chimpanzee hand, a jar of moles (rather like a jar of sweets but more macabre, with little pink paws instead of wrappers), and a large model of an elephant’s heart.
It’s a busy day for foxes
