When we moved into The Old School Room in 2011 it came with a very tired looking Village Noticeboard and we have always planned to replace it. Finally ten years later, here it is.
We are planning for the OSR Projects Noticeboard to be our outdoor ‘gallery’ and to kick things off we will be celebrating local creativity, inviting our local communitity to present artworks that have been made over the last year during the Covid 19 pandemic.
NOTICEBOARD 01
The Road to Malia – Artist Chris Burr
765w x 615h. Oil paint and oil pastel.
“The painting was worked up earlier in 2020 from a sketch I made during our last holiday in the sun”
Now retired from the Royal Mail Chris spends a lot of his time painting in his garden studio. Chris was a Volunteer Steward at Od Arts Festival 2018 and will be back to help us again later this year.
NOTICEBOARD 02
Welly boot and street light, 2020. Artist – Ella Kearvell
Created on an iPad with drawing software, Procreate.
“It depicts two views within one artwork- a stile near Wickets Beer road and a distant street light, a view I had become familiar with after self isolating for two weeks at my uni accommodation.”
Ella is a member of the Od Arts Festival committee and was also a Volunteer Steward for the festival in 2018. Ella is now in her second year currently studying Costume And Performance Design at Arts University Bournemouth.
https://www.instagram.com/ellakearvell/
NOTICEBOARD 03
Dear Mum – Photograph by Joy Kearney
My personal creative project since the autumn lockdown has been to read through all the airletters I wrote to my Mum when I was at boarding school. She lovingly kept all my letters from 1964 to 1969.
One day I attached a few of the airletters to the weeping cherry in my garden which is where my mother’s ashes are buried.
Joy volunteered for Od Arts Festival in 2018.
