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Archive for the ‘Pool Riverside Park’ Category
POOL RIVERSIDE PARK – DOG WALKING SIGNS
23 June 2016
Since designing the Winnie the Pooh inspired interpretation maps for Pool Riverside Park the area has become a very popular walking route for many local residents, including those wishing to walk their dogs. Unfortunately some of these people have been inconsiderate in cleaning up after their dogs; therefore we were called in to come up with a solution to this ‘pooey problem’.
We have designed nine brightly coloured, and easy to spot, posters in total. Each one features a child’s drawing of someone walking their dog, all completed by local schoolchildren, give or take a few drawings of dogs! All are A3 size and printed on Dibond with an anti-scuff lamination.
To see more posters click on the Pool Riverside Park Interpretation Maps icon on the Projects page and scroll half way down.
POOL RIVERSIDE PARK – OFFICIAL OPENING DAY
15 June 2015
The Official Opening Day of Pool Riverside Park by Councillor Barry Anderson – Sunday 14 June 2015 – with Pool’s King and Queen, Greg Mulholland MP, with Richard Parker and John Porter of the RGMC (the park’s management committee) and artist Karen van de Bospoort. Also attending were all the other members of the RGMC and Councillor Caroline Anderson.
Thanks to all who contributed, including all the children from Pool C of E School, to make this such a great community project!
POOL RIVERSIDE PARK – COMMUNITY FEEDBACK
11 February 2015
A large meeting was held at the weekend in Pool Village Hall to discus many local matters of interest. This included the first view of the Pool Riverside Park interpretation panel. This was produced as a printers proof to give the local community time for their comments. The completed Pool in Wharfedale Tour de France video – produced by our video artist son, Harry, was also available for viewing. Both projects have involved the local community and received some fantastic feedback – even from persons further afield!
The next stage for the Riverside panels is final print and installation in two locations around the park. Keep checking this blog for further details!
POOL RIVERSIDE PARK – OUR LATEST COMMUNITY ARTS PROJECT ‘WINNIE THE POOH’ INSPIRED PERMANENT GROUNDS MAPS
28 November 2014
We were approached by the Pool RGMC (Recreation Grounds Management Committee) to create an artwork, in conjunction with retired teacher Richard Parker and the children of Pool C of E Primary School, in the style of E H Shepherd’s 100 Aker Wood Map for the grounds of the local park.
The land is owned by the RGMC and held in trust for the benefit of the residents of Pool and the surrounding villagers, but little use is made of the area by the residents of Pool save for events like Pool Feast and the recent Tour de France Grand Depart. The RGMC wished to re-brand and rename the area, Pool Riverside Park, and briefed us to create a logo that would fit the bill! To further encourage residents to make full use of the area they wished us to create two interpretation boards (maps) to be sited close to the access points to the park.
Our first point of call was to walk the area of parkland, taking photos and sketching areas to create a scaled map. Not such an easy thing to do, as streams were almost invisible with their summer growth and paths took us backwards and forwards and round and around! This all helped though to create a first stage design visual of the map at full size.
Workshop dates were organised over three afternoons during term-time, so that all children of the school could help with this project. Along with the map visual we prepared sheets of images to inspire the children to complete pencil drawings of what could be included on the map: trees and other wildlife, recreational pastimes like dog walking, cycling, playing football and cricket, or simply just people enjoying the great outdoors!
Led by Richard Parker we spent three very enjoyable workshop sessions with the children and their creative excitement led to some fantastic drawings! We also created a slideshow of ten landmarks around the park that we wished the children to name. We noted down all names that the children suggested – some very simple, some totally inspired – all to be later discussed, with final names chosen by the RGMC. This is why a simple green bridge is now called Kingfisher Bridge and a quite insignificant stream is grandly called Corn Mill Beck!
Back in our studios I sifted through all the children’s drawings and chose the most relevant. These were scanned into my computer and scaled to the correct size before piecing together and printing out seven A4 sheets of combined drawings. I next used a black pen to trace over the children’s drawings on layout paper. These were scanned in ready to place on relevant areas of the finished artwork map.
In fact, I spent quite some hours piecing together the artwork for this detailed and imaginative map; adding 3D images to a map is not so straightforward as a standard aerial map. But, using the children’s amazing drawings was a joy and turned into a work of love! I also added my own drawings of areas that the children hadn’t chosen to draw, such as: Pool Bridge and Pool Village Hall. Names chosen were also added.
Next stage was colouring in the various areas of the map, all created on my computer to resemble a watercolour paint effect. The feedback up to now has been fantastic, but you will have to wait to see the coloured in version on my next blog!