Drawing in Nature with artist Kay Walsh.

In a series of 8 workshops we will be exploring the green spaces within the local area.

In an urban environment there are many forgotten or hidden spaces that exist between the curb, railway lines, carparks and side streets.

By focusing on these micro climates we can discover a variety of plants within nature that we may generally overlook. These are spaces where nature is free from constraint, a space between and on the fringes.

Using mobile phones we will document the urban edgelands to create a collection of untamed nature images that slip between city and countryside whilst other known spaces are maintained.

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.

Presented by Team London Bridge as part of its programme for Totally Thames - Thames Festival Trust