Land Art in the middle of winter! Well Year 6 have started their new Cornerstones topic on Gallery.
As part of the engage week they had arranged for a day to immerse the children in a whole range of art activities and of course Forest School could offer Environmental Art. Also taking part in the day was Spencer Jenkins http://www.spencerjenkins.co.uk/ Teachers and TA's provided the other activities.
We explored the work of Richard Schilling and how he used natural materials in the landscape also interesting is the way he records the decay of his artwork.
This inspired the children to collect and find as much as they could to create their own pieces of work.
Thanks to http://fagleyforestschool.blogspot.co.uk/2012_05_01_archive.html I'd picked up the idea of using material and leaves to create a picture on material by bashing the colour out of them, we also found that on one side the leaf completly embeded itsefl into the material.
This proved a popular option on a very cold day with few materials available to collect and the results of the sessions can be seen in the book below.
