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The Link Magazine • April 2004 13
Dreams, memories, reflections in community art
There's now a warm, brilliantly coloured welcome to the North Swindon library following the unveiling of a community artwork depicting
scenes from Haydon Wick over the past 100 years.
Created by local art- culty visualising what
ist Susan Carr, the she had in mind when
project consists of over the project was first put
200 individual wooden it to us. But now that it
tiles painted by mem- has come together it is
bers of the Haydon absolutely brilliant. You
Wick Over 60's club, can see so much of
several of whom have Haydon Wick life in
lived in Haydon Wick miniature."
all their lives, and re- The work is one of sev-
member when it was eral collaborative
just a tiny village sur- projects put forward by
rounded by green Susan to be sponsored
fields. Susan also by Haydon Wick Parish
worked with Year 5/6 Council. She added that
children at Haydon- art in the community
leigh School who con- brings out so much un-
tributed tiles. tapped ability. "It is al-
The tiles have been ways a privilege and a
assembled on an oc- joy to share art with oth-
tagonal wooden back- ers; human beings have
ing board, around a cen- an innate creativity,
tral architectural mon- which deserves expres-
tage, featuring the sion.,'
buildings of Haydon • Susan, who gained her
Wick, painted by local first degree in Design/
artist and illustrator Illustration at Swindon
Terry Humphries. College, is now studying
The panels depict for a MA in Art Therapy
community groups, at the University of Hert-
World War II and VE fordshire, as well as con-
day, a GWR train, pets, tinuing to work as a com-
shops and a number of Susan Carr with Over 60s artists Joan Bridgentan and Pat Cutting. munity artist and illus-
Standing from left, Bertll Bishop, Gwen Fleet, Joan Levick, Mary Miller
abstract images. trator.
Susan said the project was based featuring The Link.
on the idea of a Mandala, which is "The overall effect of the painting
the Tibetan word for wheel. "In is one of bright colours, jostling life
this context the shape represents a and an overall cohesive feeling, en- L
circle of belief, awareness, or ex- capsulating many dreams, memo-
pression from the heart. Each tile ries and reflections."
is a mini work of art reflecting the Pat Cutting, chair of the Over t
diversity of people's lives in 60s club, said Susan's idea was a
Haydon Wick, there is also a tile bit strange at first. "We had diffi-

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