We are working with young people from Beechwood Secondary School in Slough on the Barratt Homes artist programme. Our inspiration is the based on the ideas of home and home building. We will be exploring natural and man-made materials to create a piece of work for one of Barratt's showcase developments in Slough.
We love the Bower birds and will use their collecting and making habits as a source of ideas for our work.
A fantastic project working with Allen & Overy as part of their Artbeat Project, working with Year 10 Art students at Bethnal Green Technology College. A great example of business, community and art coming together. Inspired by the Cable Street Mural we worked on the idea of Art, people and Justice. Check out the link for full details
Using my fine art practices and interest in developing creative learning through making and creating games. Exploring with Years 3 and 4 at Crane Park Primary how to think through making - to explore the environment through using reclaimed materials. Developing curiosity and imagination and sustained concentration this project was an enquiry into creative learning as part of the Creative Partnerships Enquiry Schools programme. Materials input supported by OCTink as part of their social responsibility initiatives.
Exploring the world of life and work through snakes and ladders with girls from Brentford School for Girls as part of the Hounslow Industry Day initiative organised by Sir Garth Buckle (education and business partnership) in association with OCTINK and their social responsibility initiatives
I am working with fellow artist Tessa Miller to create an installation from the drawings that were made by local school children in Brentford. This is a project that we expect to take at least a year, saving their bee drawings and creating new works with the intention of showing and sharing with the community to raise awareness about the plight of the bees. Postings of progress and sketchbook ideas will be made on this site for all those interested in following our journey.....
Ten schools were selected in the south of England to take part in the SEGRO Young Artists Programme 2009. I was selected to work with Year 8 pupils from Folkestone Academy to explore the theme of work. Taking our inspiration from the exquisite corpse parlour game and referencing surrealism we looked at how we could transform our ideas about work. Finding the careers guides and information lacking any interest for young people we decided together to make a visual response using both traditional and digital collage techniques, imagining what future jobs might be.
The work exhibited at the Royal society of Arts in London in June 2009 was three large digital prints and a digital screen with up to 100 images produced by the class. Folkestone Academy were one of four schools to have their work purchased by Segro for display in their Head Office.
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Artist in residence at Slough Museum as part of Archifest 2009. I worked with the local community and local artists to create an installation that explored people's relationship with the architecture of Slough, past, present and future. See photo albums for further images
Catching Butterflies with a Wooden Spoon
Linda trained as a Chartered Accountant and worked as a Business Transformation Consultant for KPMG for over ten years before becoming a professional artist and creative agent, using a unique combination of analytical thinking and inventiveness.
Linda helps individuals and organisations to become life-long creative learners and risk takers and supports them to develop their own creative processes within the constraints of organisational pressures.
Delivering workshops, coachmentoring sessions and seminars, Linda looks at ideas of creativity, inventiveness and processes of ‘letting go’. Linda explores contradictions and notions of the absurd and the ridiculous and questions the sense of self to understand how we create meaning. By suspending judgement and re-thinking possibilities Linda uses her experience of visual thinking to help people to change perspective, re-frame values and look at what is possible.
Linda challenges, questions and provokes a deeper level of understanding to open up ideas and raise awareness of how inventiveness combined with analytical thinking can benefit productivity and competitiveness.
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