{"id":4873,"date":"2018-11-30T07:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:31:42","slug":"working-with-devon-recovery-learning-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.organicarts.org.uk\/projects\/posts\/working-with-devon-recovery-learning-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Devon Recovery Learning Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Devon Recovery Learning Community<\/h3>\n

Devon Recovery Learning Community<\/a> is a recovery college provided by Devon Partnership NHS Trust for the wellbeing of people in Devon. The students of the college are people with lived experience of mental health difficulties, their family and friends, and the professionals who support them.<\/p>\n

Creative Courses<\/h3>\n

organicARTS has been providing creative courses for them over the past two years entitled \u2018Enjoying the Outdoors\u2019 and \u2018Farm Creativity Walks\u2019 This year they commissioned us to provide courses entitled \u2018Wellbeing and Willow\u2019; \u2018Festive Decorations\u2019 and \u2018Connecting with the Earth: Clayworks\u2019.<\/p>\n

Lucy Rockliffe<\/a>, organicARTS’ ceramicist, describes the work like this …<\/p>\n

The farm creativity walks sessions start with a gentle walk near the farm, taking in the landscape, plants and creatures, gathering from the hedgerows materials that might be used for creativity. Each session we have a focus inspired by our walks and the season. One week we might make some charcoal in an open fire for drawing, or we might have a go at some clay work pressing in plants into tiles. In October we still had flowers around the farm which we gathered for flower pounding. In November we have done observational drawings with our own charcoal and colour palette of earth pigments, we have woven found materials to make small artworks and have walked the wet lanes looking at the geology and for small amounts of clay to make a West Town Farm thumb pot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n