Dear Heretics and Fruitcakes Well I have to say it’s amazing what things spring to your mind at the funniest times of the day or night as it’s now 11.55pm. Maccarinelli has just retained ...
Diary
Coming up to the next workshop at Fox Hollies school, the shape of what the final work will be was taking better shape in my head. I'm planning to try to express ...
Growing art and architecture together in the verdant landscape of the Natural House Project produces a Temple... This Hermitge at Compton Verney is now radiant and alive... wheat grains are sprouting ...
The first workshop I did with pupils at Fox Hollies school was designed to introduce the project: what I was doing there, and what that had to do with the ambitious changes ...
Dear Heretics and Fruitcakes Eight years ago I was a fishing widow! That is until the day I could smell rotting mackeral upstairs and had been assured by nearest and dearest that ...
On Sunday 24th June I created the final print! I have really enjoyed this opportunity to work in an experimental way to create piece of work that I wouldn't normally produce. I ...
On Saturday 23rd June my collagraph plate was almost finished so I set to work inking it up to print. I wanted it in full colour so I carefully rubbed different ...
On Thurs 21st June I set to work creating a collagraph print of the 'Ideal Home'. To create a collagraph I start with a piece of card and then stick various ...
The Urban Shanty Builder is continually required to respond to the changing demands of the urban context. The House of Angels and Pins, is a place for the meeting of different realities, a ...
For the Urban Shanty Builder, the need to address the vernacular of the immediate environment is paramount if the Shanty is to have any sense of belonging and longevity. Just as the ...
The Urban Environment is a felt experience. From the sensations of the skin through to the empathic feelings of the tugged emotions. Even the visual experience, so crucial to the modern urban experience, ...
Of the materials which construct our sense of place, dust is the most visceral and ignored. Dust is the trace of the body, micro-fragments of our perpetually disintegrating fabric. For the Urban Shanty ...
Perpetual motion, usually of the energy expending kind flows through the Urban Environment. From the collisions of migration through to the ambulations of the urban walker, this drives the frisson of urban ...
Workshops in Birmingham - how was it?
The participants of workshops at Birmigham site said: Photo by Jo Hallington Very inspiring-reminding us all that we can take control of our own environment, build our ...
Workshops at Compton Verney - how was it?
Participants of the workshops at Compton Verney said: A house/home that's really part of you (And we enjoyed squelching the clay through our fingers!) - Ann Photo by Jo Hallington Very ...
Pockets of Loveliness (and Mud) by Daniel Gay
"The Natural House Project" at Acton Scot ( … Saturday the 16th of June 2007 … ) by Daniel Gay I am sitting on a slightly damp bench by the wall ...
The Natural House at Compton Verney (4)
Hello, the walls are drying, last night a creature was nesting in the thatch... yesterday I disturbed a large moth crawling into sanctuary under the eaves whilst combing them... the nearby Ice ...
The Natural House at Compton Verney (3)
The rains have fallen well these days... the curative, fertilising elixirs of the sky descending with warmth and charge... risen from the atlantic ocean, softening the earth here... the thunderer impregnating the ...
I've started this project with a creative consultation with visitors to Wolverhampton Art Gallery on 16th June to try to find out what the 'Ideal Home' would be.... looks like it's ...
The Natural House at Compton Verney (2)
Hello... tired eyes on the longest day... back to the landscape designed Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the morning after a long day away... the longest day today. The rhythms of the sun ...
During the project I got up early on the morning of the 16th and drove out to Acton Scott. I arrived to find the farm yard deserted, except for the animals. I set ...
Even though the name of the project is ‘Shelter – a photographic project in one day’ – that is a lie. The ‘one day’ of the title is the bit that the public ...
Workshops at Acton Scott - how was it?
Participants of the workshops at Acton Scott said: Throwing the mud on the wall was the best! I had lots of fun - Verity We had a great tactile time! Mashing straw into ...
Acton Scot - Shelter: a photographic exhibition in one day
Photo by Graham Peet The aim of the day was to make a framed exhibition about Shelter. ...
The Natural House at Compton Verney
Work is worship! The days are gloriously long this time of year, the sun still waxing to the solstice, Canada geese grazing on high summer's grass tips, and the ever green Yews ...
Guest notes Today Mr Brzeski required the group to learn about roofing. The Natural House uses wooden shingles that cover the straw and clay blocks within a wooden structural framework. In ...
Workshops in Poland - Day Five
Energy day We had a different structure today – Mr Brzeski came to us, at our accommodation, we all lounged in the beautiful wood cladded sitting room, safely away from ravaging mosquitoes – ...
Workshops in Poland - Day Four
Fluorescent Nails? As we dazzled in the glare of Monikas orange toenails, the sun beat down for a hot day in Poland. On site at Mr Brzeski’s workshop and home we were ...
Workshops in Poland - Day Three
Having established the working partnerships in groups of four the class set about the days tasks with a clear understanding of how each process integrated in the manufacture of the clay blocks....
Whilst it may be an oversimplification, it is nevertheless true to say that after only one day, it has become a group joke that our happy band actually consists of two distinct ...
After months of speculation and last-minute rallying of the troops, the group left Birmingham and arrived in Warsaw for The Natural House Clay Build Technology (CBT) project. A further bumpy ride via ...
