Page 21 - ALG Issue 3 2023

Looking for creative plotholders to share their allotment art!
Perhaps you...
• Haveanartisticflair when it comes to decorating your shed
• Reuseeveryday items to decorate your plot
• Createartusingthe resources your allotment provides
• Useyourplotor garden for inspiration
• Or,maybeyourplot doubles as your art studio
YOU are a creative
plotholder, and we want to
hear from you!
Please tell us a bit about your allotment or garden creativity – and send over a few images for your fellow plotholders to see. You don’t have to write much! 200 – 500 words plus 3-4 large jpg images is perfect.
Email to natsoc@nsalg.org.uk
Creativity on the Community
Allotment
David has been part of the Cookham Community Allotment since it started in 2014. He did paintings in his leisure time before he joined but started to bring his hobby to the allotment too. Sometimes, especially when its warm weather, David opts out of the gardening and sits in the shade to draw our activities on different plots. He has done so well that he recently had a small exhibition of his paintings in the Day Centre, of the allotment and local scenes.
These are David’s own words: “Call me David Russell. I help at the Alfred Major Community Allotment on Saturdays and have a small plot where I grow herbs and also a couple of pots of daffodils. I also draw and watercolour the parts of the allotment, and I draw and watercolour parts of Cookham when I go for walks.
I also draw and paint and embellish Christmas cards and birthday cards.”
Since we are often the recipients of these individual cards, we are always keen to encourage David to paint and draw whenever he is in the mood to do so. He is our ‘artist in residence’ and we are very lucky to have him.
Becky Pinniger
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