Mari Hayman

Pitton Methodist Chapel, near Rhossili

Skaters

Mari Hayman is an experienced, well motivated artist and teacher with a studio in Swansea. She makes versatile use of a variety of media and processes producing individual and collaborative work on both a small and large scale. She draws from life and paints in all media with her subjects including landscapes, seascapes, people etc. In addition, she makes panels for churches and homes, stained glass windows, mosaics and also undertakes community work. She enjoys co-operating  with people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds and has successfully completed community and educational projects in the U.K. and abroad.

Seeds of Life

Seeds of Life is the Lent/Easter arts programme at St Andrew's Leytonstone. The programme is being devised and organised by Helen Gould and is a follow-on to the earlier Tree of Life programme.

Seeds of Life will include arts activities with the Seniors, Youth, Lent and House groups at St Andrew's. In addition, there will be two weeks of drop-in session at Cafe Refresh encouraging people to write or draw on the theme. It is also hoped to create a living cross and hold a creative event for Mothering Sunday.

Development of a community art installation

We asked workshop participants to create a picture that said something about themselves before nailing that picture to the cross. Some ideas that we suggested included:

• an abstract using favourite colours;
• a collage of favourite things;
• a picture of themselves, families, friends or favourite places;
• an abstract with colours showing how they felt right then; and
• writing about themselves – a description, a poem, a short story.

People used several of these ideas, as well as doing their own thing. The first picture nailed to the cross was actually one straight from the heart describing how the person felt right then and there. Our thought was that on the cross all of what we are, difficult and joyous, is held and embraced by God.