Author: Colin Slater – artist
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Night Owl
Celebration Mural at Newark Hill Academy 17 – 19.6.14 This week I returned to the Newark Hill Academy, Peterborough to complete some unfinished business. Before Easter I led a series of image making workshops which culminated in the production of a series of design ideas for a mural project. An outside wall had been identified…
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I’m Still Standing
Caverstede Early Years Centre Mural– 11 Years Later It might be fate, it might be bad luck, but over the many years I have been building a digital version of the photographic archive of my paintings I have experienced hard disk crashes on three occasions. The last time this happened my back-up system failed too…
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Picture This
Image making workshops at Dogsthorpe Junior School – Landscape & Seascape 22 & 23.5.14 A couple of days working with children from year 4 at Dogsthorpe Junior School, Peterborough, to generate some ‘Landscape’ and ‘Seascape’ images following an invitation from Head Teacher Charlotte Krzanicki. The first day was spent using charcoal, the second chalk pastel. I…
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Don’t Panic
Image making workshops at William Law Primary – Owls & Castles 4.6.14 A return to William Law CE Primary School, Peterborough to lead another image making workshop using charcoal, this time working with children from year 4, but it was a session with a difference. Instead of spending the whole day at the school as I…
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Here Comes The Rain Again
The Jurassic Challenge – it’s no walk in the park 27.5.14 When my chum Andy Croson told me he would be walking the Jurassic Way to raise money for Cancer Research, I told him I would walk a section with him. I’ve known Andy for over 40 years and in recent months another mutual and…
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Night Boat to Cairo
Image making workshops at William Law Primary – Ancient Egypt 12.5.14 At the tail end of January I received an email from Darren Smith, First School Team Leader at William Law CE Primary School, Peterborough, with a invitation to spend a day working with some groups of children from year 3 and using Ancient Egypt as…
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I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor
‘Studio Tango Revisited’ One week before it was set in place I posted a movie on youtube of the Fulbridge Entrance painting in its finished but unvarnished state. Although staff and children at the school were aware of the design, and informed of the progress of the painting through photographs presented as a visual diary on…
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Hole in the Ground
‘Alice in Wonderland’ at Titchmarsh School 3.4.14 To accompany the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ themed day I painted a large Rabbit Hole in the school playground, which greeted the children when they arrived at school that morning. Measuring approximately 36′ x 19′ it stretches from the school gate to the playground door as an anamorphic distortion,…
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Town Called M-Alice……….Part 2
‘A Mad Tea-Party’ at Titchmarsh School– The Mural 4.4.14 One month after the World Book Day Drawing Workshops and I returned to Titchmarsh School for an ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ day to complete the Mad Tea Party project. On my last visit Eeyore met me at Reception, this time it was the Queen of Hearts. It…
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Take Me To The River
The Art of Poetry Two paintings, ‘Blue Salute Sunset. Turner Speaking From Beyond the Horizon’ & ‘Black Nene Willows’, included in a diverse exhibition of art inspired by poetry and accompanied by the poetry that inspired it. The exhibition, at Obsidian Art Gallery in Stoke Mandeville, will be open from Friday 21 March – Wednesday…