Salvage

This week we visited the 'salvage' exhibition by Nigel Talbot at Newport Art Gallery with the South Wales Home Educators Network.

After a very interesting talk about sculpture the children looked around the installation made from reclaimed materials. Mr Talbot gave them a really interesting talk, explaining the origins and inspiration for the pieces they could see. Afterwards they made drawings of anything which interested or inspired them and finally they made boats from clay.

It turned Nigel Talbot had been an art teacher who had taught one of the Mums! I remember loving art at school and never being any good at drawing, particularly being made to draw trees over and over and over in senior school

The kids had a wonderful time and it certainly was a different 'take' on art!