Sticks and Stones

Today was spent in the woods, making art from found materials.  The class was Sticks and Stones.  The tutor, Christopher Frost.

No expensive materials to buy.  No preparation.  No clearing up.  Just  a simple collaboration between artist and nature, resulting in temporary structures, ephemeral creations.

This was art to decorate the forest, to cheer passers-by, to be chanced upon in unexpected places.  Art to be changed by the weather, to crumble with the seasons.

We worked with sticks and clay, with sand and water, with leaves and berries, with flowers and bark.  We got hot and dirty; walked miles along woodland paths.  And we loved every last minute of it.

EDIT ONE WEEK LATER: Internet connection was dodgy at Squam.  Couldn't upload all the photos I wanted to when I created the collage above.  So here are the photos I'd like to have shown you....

Comments

[helen]

....and now I wish even more I could be there! What a perfect sounding....and looking....day. Thanks for sharing Helen.

Blessed be
H x

[Tracy]

Beautiful photos of your creations, Helen! That sounds like a workshop for hubby & I... foraging for one's art supplies--I like that! Happy Weekend ((HUGS))

[Karen D]

Hi what great pics of STicks and Stones class. I think I was in unravelling 2 with you... I was at Squam last week also!