The View From Here - Mosaics at The Green Patch - Latest Update

Lovely afternoon session

working on a larger abstract landscape panel

with a little tile sorting on the side!

Here is our larger panel ready to grout.

More Mosiacs Underway

More mosaics for The Green Patch 

underway in 

and outside The Mollie

and at Grange Place

these were made by our Tuesday group

and are abstract landscapes of

the view from of the landscape as seen from The Green Patch

Our Mini Mosaics

Our mini mosaics now have frames and

beautiful stencilled backs!

See how they have developed here

The View From Here Mosaics Update

The first four mosaic panels for The Green Patch have been completed

  and with the first fine day Carole Miles and Phiona Richards

donned gloves and applied the grout, a messy job but 

enjoyable when the final results were revealed.

Halloween Pumpkin Lanterns

Homemade Tomato Soup

Broadbeans, Cabbage, Carrots, Turnip (possibly upside down)

Duck Eggs

You can see how the designs were made here and here

and how the panels developed here

Design for a Thank You Card

Carole Miles took the images printed a few weeks ago and made some trial designs for the mosaic panels. Although they proved to be to detailed for the mosaic project, Lucy felt that the images would make lovely designs for thank you cards! 

A Tile Patch For the Green Patch

So the mosaic making has begun

and to get a bit of practice we have been

making very simple, geometric squares.

If you would like to make a tile patch

for the Green Patch then Carole will

be in or near The Mollie on Tues 18th or 

Thurs 20th between 1.00pm and 3.00pm

Let us know if you'll be joining us!

Here is lovely local resident Sue modelling our

View From Here information card.

If you would like to see the patches so far follow the link

https://www.flickr.com/photos/backtobooks/sets/72157646869598023/

How You Can Help Raise Funds to Replace Missing Brampton Valley Way Mosaic

Since we have had no sightings of the stolen mosaic panel but lots of great support and comments about the pleasure the way markers have given we are attempting to raise funds to create a replacement. This Autumn Local Giving are Running their Grow Your Tenner Scheme where for every individual donation of £10 Local Giving will match it with £10 and if you Gift Aid there will be an extra benefit to your donation! The campaign launches 14th October 2014 and finishes when the match fund runs out or the 31st January 2015 - whichever comes first.

You can support Back To Books by visiting our Local Giving Page HERE your £10 can help to fill the empty space left on the Brampton Valley Way and will bring joy and inspiration to walkers, runners and cyclists who regularly use this great community asset. You can read about the original project here. We hope you can help us make this a reality!

It's All About the Grout!

In a shady corner outside Caroles' Studio (shed) there have been signs of tea drinking, butterfly watching and grouting!

This is the part we look forward to but in spite of gloves there is a certain artist who always gets plenty on herself and her clothes, hence the attractive overall!

Starting to clean away the excess grout

to gently reveal the image beneath

We thought it was nice to include parts of the surroundings to show scale and where most of the work has taken place. What photographs can't really capture is the play of light on the tiles, some of which have a lustre which changes colour as you move round.

So here are Puddle Jumping 

and Signal Box completed!

Many thanks to Andrew Rushton for the photographs and to Lucy Anderson so being such a star. 

11 panels done one to go! 

Return Shednologists!

Margot Norris nipping and tucking

Sonja Wilson deep in concentration

One of the best aspects of this project has been to see the excitement, pleasure, satisfaction and relaxation it has brought to all the participants. There have been so many interesting conversations, much shared laughter and a real sense of community both in the shed and out in the community venues we have visited. For the most part we have been lucky with the weather, even when it has been overcast or wet, people have come to take part. We really appreciate all the extra hours our Artist / Project Coordinator Carole Miles has put into the project to make it such a success! She also brews a mean cup of tea!

Frost Completed!

Carole spent the weekend completing the frost panel

Saturday

Sunday

Thursday

Puddle Jumping - Filling in the Figures

Carole spent Monday and Tuesday working 

on the figures in the Puddle Jumping panel