Welcome to the Craft Village!
Venture into a world of art and creativity…
Featured Artists
‘How to produce the BEST PHOTO’?
By Ellie Blake
My View of the Sea and ceramics
By Rosie Fish
Alone on a walk in lockdown
Ruqayyah Ullah
Clark Reynolds shows us round his studio!
THE ENTRIES
Thank you to everyone who entered our arts and crafts competition. Now it’s time to enjoy all the incredible talent below!
Macy Heald, age 4
Macy loves to draw on her iPad – she finds it difficult to draw on paper because the colours are never quite bold enough for her to see properly. She drew the VICTA logo!
Image description: A picture of Macy drawing on her ipad and the finished rainbow.
Abigail Lucas, age 5
“This is a chalk drawing I did of my baby brother’s dragonfly rattle.”
Image description: Abigail holding the rattle she drew next to the chalk drawing on black paper.
Benjamin Tall, age 10
“I have been busy creating art through the summer and this is my idea of a perfect day at the beach!”
Image description: Benjamin has drawn a beach with a bright orange sky, a large sun over a blue sea with a fish in it. There are large circular rocks on either side and ‘summer’ is written in the sand.
Kristiahn Marjoram, age 4
“I went on a rainbow walk with my big sisters, there was a care home with a huge rainbow that I could see. I made my own with my sisters help to say thank you to the nurses on my road.”
Image description: Kristiahn’s mum is holding him up in front of the window with a rainbow in it made from paper hearts.
Ella Briant, age 9
“I have only used recycled materials to create my penguin”
Image description: a penguin made from boxes with lots of fun details added including wiggly pipe cleaners, cone feet and a neck full of colourful pom poms.
Ellie Clark, age 9
* Prize draw winner *
“We made a tactile rainbow in lockdown. Mummy cut out and coloured in a card rainbow. My sister sorted all the craft into coloured bowls. We took turns to stick the coloured craft things onto the rainbow shape. I liked the ridged shiny pieces best.”
Image description: A rainbow made from lots of colourful stuck on shapes with big fluffy cotton wool clouds at each end. Ellie and her sister are holding it smiling.
Poppy Woodhams-Beazeley, age 8
“I love animals so I made this dolphin picture with tiny pieces of wildlife magazines. I find scissors tricky so I really enjoyed cutting random shapes and seeing all the colours together.”
Image description: Poppy smiling holding her picture, a dolphin made from lots of small pieces of collaged paper on a black paper background. She has collaged her name in the bottom corner.
Eilidh Johnstone, age 13
“This is a picture of Blackness Castle near Edinburgh. My mum helped me take the photo, she told me when the castle was in the centre of the screen.”
Image description: a photo of the castle which juts out of the coastline. The photo is taken from rocks looking over the sea.
Megan Dunwell, age 10
“I made flowers using a fork.”
Image description: Megan sitting in her chair with her picture in front of her, she has made the pattern of the flowers using a fork.
Eden Brownlee, age 13
Eden Brownlee, age 13
Liberty Rose Shaw, age 12
* Prize draw winner *
“During lockdown, my Art distance learning topics from school were Pop Art and Portraits. I was set a piece of homework to create a portrait of a celebrity or famous person in the style of Julian Opie, famous for his Pop Art (he created the iconic cover for the Blur: Best Of album). Can you guess who this is?!”
Image description: bright colours in a pop art style depicting… warning the answer is coming up… Harry Potter
Liberty Rose Shaw, age 12
“One of my favourite artists is Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who is sometimes called ‘the princess of polka dots’. Although she makes lots of different types of art – paintings, sculptures, performances and installations – they have one thing in common, DOTS! I decided to have a go at drawing and colouring (using my Japanese marker pens) my own Kusama-inspired creation!”
Image description: As Liberty describes she has made an abstract drawing using dots and bright colours.
Liberty Rose Shaw, age 12
“Most of my artwork is based on Manga (Japanese comics and artwork), Pop Art, hence the colours and Mythology; the root of my character designs.”
Liberty Rose Shaw, age 12
“I’m inspired by the following; mythology, cartoon characters, pop art. I normally do work in bright colours as it is both easier to see and can send a positive atmosphere. My art is normally in a few different styles, as I’m experimenting at the moment. The Heinz Can was to do with a school project and is pop-art themed.”
Ivan Rodriguez Deb, age 15
Image description: Three paintings by Ivan. 1 a painting of a beach and sea with palm leaves at the top ; 2 A treble clef in the centre with coloured angular shapes surrounding it; 3 brightly coloured buildings behind a canal with gondola boats on it.
Dexter Ward, age 4
* Prize draw winner *
“I love planets so I made my own solar system out of Fimo. I made the planets and their moons. I also made our sun.”
Image descriptions: The first photo shows Dexter looking at his Fimo planets and the second photo shows a brailled solar system with information in braille.
Hannah Williams, age 15
“This is a drawing completed by me of my cat Crowley.”
Image description: A grey pencil drawing of Crowley the cat who has green eyes.
Chirag Ram, age 20
“It’s a portrait of the living of life.”
Image description: painted scenes arranged with a backdrop of paintbrushes, paints and pencils.
Sasha McBride, age 12
“Sasha made this digital picture during lockdown. It is in an Japanese Anime style, which interests Sasha and a digital VICTA Rainbow made by Sasha!”
Image descriptions: The first image is a computer drawing of two girls merged together down the middle – the writing reads Thank You NHS for your work. The second computer drawing is of the VICTA rainbow.
Benjamin Bates, age 5
“I have made a blue whale out of rubbish!!”
Image description: Ben has a big smile on his face and is holding up a large whale made from a box covered in shiny blue paper with a hollow mouth and large wobbly eyes.
Freya Spencer, age 12
“I have taken photographs of the scenery I found A nice thing to look at /see whilst I am on Holiday with my Grandma in the Lakes. The Picture is of Lake Windermere in Bowness”
Image description: a view looking over the lake with the mountains in the background and a small boat and ducks on the lake.
