Nature Encounters with artist Kay Walsh. In a series of 8 workshops we will be exploring the green spaces within the local area.

Southwark has a great many trees planted as part of the beautification project founded by Ada Salter in and around the Tower Bridge area.

All trees have spirits and through this workshop participants will be encouraged to meet a tree that has some significance to them before creating a spirit with clay.

Using clay leaves twigs we will sculpt a fitting spirit for their chosen tree. This can remain and slowly will decompose over time but serve as a marking of the spirit for these trees that have become part of the lungs of London.

At the end of the session we will make wild flower seed bombs to take away and scatter in our local environments for future greening of inner London spaces

Whatever our relationship to nature is we can all get closer. Through a series of encounters we hope to introduce local residents and workers to listen in, see and experience what may have been hidden or previously unnoticed within the urban environment.

Research shows even a micro encounter with the natural world can improve mood and well being by tuning into our surroundings.

In a series of 8 workshops we will be exploring the green spaces within the local area using our senses to create, observe and record and inhabit these spaces in new ways.

Artist Bio

Kay Walsh has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has investigated ideas of nature and our impact on places and spaces within it.

Using photography, video, sound and text her work explores narratives that exist within specific landscapes.

Slow movement and slow looking take the viewer on a journey in search of something often hidden or hard to find.

In her film 'All His Rights' ideas of sustainability, and rewilding are explored through social history, ecology and environmental concerns raised around the Red Deer.

Current work focuses on light that occupies the spaces within a domestic setting. Documenting the changing occupation of a family home through photography and text.