We’ve made our tile
As part of the public art project being sponsored by Groundworks, the canal tow path contractors, invitations have gone out most Stone schools, churches and voluntary bodies to each produce a tile. Which is why this morning Jill Hood and I, wearing our Food and Drink Festival hats, went along to the Youth Centre to make a tile depicting the logo. When I arrived I was amazed to find dozens of children and their parents plus repreentatives of local groups all busy transferring their designs to tracing paper and then onto soft clay tiles.
Some of the designs were wonderful! Several of the youngsters had drawn canal pictures, others had drawn local landmarks and one six year old had designed a tile solely depicting our Farmers’ Market. His mother explained that he just loves the Farmers’ Markets each month - and I thought we only appealed to the more mature customer!
Jill and I (well, it was actually all Jill!) created our tile which will now be fired and brought back next week for painting prior to its final firing. Then I do hope that all the tiles will be affixed to a suitable piece of artwork - not the proposed seat which I and many others consider inappropriate, unoriginal and downright ugly. But that’s another battle!
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