Accompanying David, the steel pan tuner, was his wife Sonia, who is an accomplished artist in her own right. She specializes in an art form known as ‘assemblage’, which involves searching for and gathering discarded natural and man-made objects, then assembling them as a 3D ‘collage’.
As Year 6/7 will be working on an Art Unit involving working with the environment as stimuli, Sonia was particularly interested to work with those students. She shared her blog, showing them her work and explaining how she created each piece. She then encouraged them to ‘have a go’ using materials she had gathered from beaches in North and Middle Caicos. They had everything from discarded shoes to sand dollars; from rusty nails to pieces of broken plastic; from coral to shells. See some more photos of their artwork.
The students thoroughly enjoyed having the opportunity to work with a visiting artist and enjoyed listening to Sonia’s comments and suggestions about their pieces. We all spent a relaxing, fun and stimulating couple of hours with a lovely lady. Thank you, Sonia.
Wow! These are really creative. Thanks Sonia.
Sonia passed on…”Thanks for the wonderful write up on the blog. It was truly my pleasure working with the students they are incredible. Every school should be like Provo Primary.”