Make, Do &
Friends

What is your village made of?
SEPTEMBER 2020 - MARCH 2021

Create

Lose yourself in one of our regular creative activities

From photography to drawing, creative writing and printmaking, each activity invites you to explore and enjoy different aspects of your surroundings.
Our team of artists has produced a programme of different activities, and we’ll be posting a new one every 2 – 3 weeks.

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Drone in my home image grid

Here’s another Drone in my Home grid, using images sent in from Glenys in Beyton. It took me ages to work out the view of the handles, crossed over the…

Plant Share by Jacquie Campbell

Noticing early spring, I really enjoy the range of yellow/greens And have been photographing, printing and drawing with these colours since early March. I don’t know about all of you…

Cow Parsley in The Great Churchyard by Jacquie Campbell

May 2nd, The Great Churchyard in Bury St Edmunds is transformed into a magical space by the lacy veil of cow parsley blooms. The plants rise to our waists and…

Printing the plant by Jacquie Campbell

Well, I said I was going to draw the Cow Parsley and instead I’ve ended up printing it today. The plants are so fresh and succulent that they have caused…

The Plant Share has begun

Here are some of the stunning May blooms that have arrived via email. I’ve been playing around, layering them with local maps using digital collage, thinking about ways all the…

Hawthorn: a celebration of May

Each day of lockdown I’ve been running along the River Lark, waiting for the moment when the creamy white Hawthorn blossoms burst open. I love this particular tree with the…

What’s growing on my patch

I hope you’ve all enjoyed the good weather this week and managed to get outside. Before I hand over to photographer Gillian Allard I’d like to share a few photos…

The Clock Above

Tarina from Fressingfield responded to Dean Parkin’s ‘A Picture of Where You Live’ exercise by writing about a memory of a particular autumn afternoon, not long after she had arrived…

THREE TREES AND OTHER FRIENDS

Paris has lived in the village for 12 years and agrees that Beyton is at its beautiful best in the spring. She also says there’s such a lovely community spirit…

The Falling Walnut Trees of Beyton

During our creative conversation, while we making a photo of Beyton in words, Lindsay mentioned a fallen walnut tree which she can when she looks out of her window. “It…

A Picture of Where You Live: a writing and conversation starter by Dean Parkin

Think of a picture of you in your village. It could be a real photograph or somewhere you know well, where you see yourself. It could be a footpath where…

Filling the Hole

Rodney has a museum in his garden at Beyton and was so busy ‘painting a dragonfly wing’ that he forgot I was supposed to be ringing him at 3pm. And…

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