Kitty Hillier's Amazing Othery Crane Trail Map

Trail map to accompany the Othery Crane Trail
Leftover maps have been recycled into paper cranes by Othery and Middlezoy schoolchildren for the Paper Crane Project

Download our Paper Crane Instruction Sheet

Individuals and groups are invited to take part in SAW’s Paper Crane Project led by Artist Lucy Lean. Hundreds of paper cranes will be made of recycled paper and drawn together for an installation at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre during the Summer and then at The Avalon Marshes Centre at Shapwick during Somerset Art Weeks 2012. 

If you would like to be part of this collaborative project please follow the link to download our paper crane instruction sheet :
http://www.somersetartworks.org.uk/news/take-part-saw-s-paper-crane-project-artist-lucy-lean
All cranes will need to be received by SAW by early/mid July at the latest, contact us for more details.  SAW - 01458 253800 info@somersetartworks.org.uk  

Paper Cranes at Langport Festival

Saturday 02 June - Langport Town Gardens
Paper crane workshops with Lucy Lean
The recycled maps referencing migration routes 

Lucy's stitched together newspaper cranes

Hilda Vaughan called by

Fold an Origami Crane

Lucy Lean's visual aid for origami workshops

Discover the Othery Village Crane Trail at the annual Street Fayre on Saturday 16 June 2012

Red, yellow, blue and white paint, a tub of water and paint brush. These were the tools given to everyone at the Somerset Art Works' workshops at Othery inspired by The Great Crane Project.

Reflecting the local community and surrounding Somerset levels where the amazing cranes are being re-introduced, throughout the last month people of all ages have started making their marks and painted their own life-size crane decoys under the guidance of artist Kitty Hillier.

‘Blossom’ was the theme for Isabel and her granddaughter, Lizzie. Young Daniel didn’t know what he was painting as such, just having fun with colour and rainbow colours. Local resident Pat was ‘just playing’ - freely painting a pastoral scene depicting day and night, with the stars and moon on the Crane’s head so it could see at night.

You can see the flock of painted Cranes from this series of workshops at the Othery Street Fayre on Saturday 16 June 11.30 – 4.30.
Collect a map from the Somerset Art Works (SAW) stall and discover the trail around the village.

Banksy Crane in Lyme Regis

Thanks to Natalie Parsley for drawing our attention to this Banksy crane in Lyme Regis - time for a trip to the seaside!
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/crane.html

Lucy Lean - Paper Crane Project

Lucy Lean , 2010

SAW is delighted to appoint emerging artist Lucy Lean to work on our Paper Crane Project.  Lucy impressed us at interview with a wealth of creative ideas, showcasing her extensive research plus a large bag full of origami cranes in different materials and beautiful sheets of stitched together paper cranes.


Lucy will be leading a series of community and school workshops throughout June and July to amass a large quantity of recycled paper cranes for this collaborative project. 


These cranes will then take form as a large installation, devised by Lucy, for Slimbridge Wetlands Centre in Gloucestershire during the Summer of 2012 and at The Avalon Marshes Centre during Somerset Arts Weeks 2012.  This project is part of SAW's ongoing project work with the Great Crane Project and Lucy's placement has been generously supported by Bruton school for Girls.


Lucy graduated in 2010 from Somerset College and her contemporary 2D and 3D work with textiles and mixed media has continued to develop. She finds the main source of her inspiration in the naturally occurring patterns and forms from around her rural home in West Somerset. The processes she uses in her work are experimental and often involve a repetitive use of stitch, cutting and layering.  Lucy brings these skills, ideas and elements to The Paper Crane Project. www.lucyleanart.com