Art Week 2025
A Big Thank You to the Whole School for Their Contribution During Art Week
Wow! What an incredibly, exciting and successful Art Week we have all had. The enthusiasm and creativity shown by all pupils and staff was truly inspiring and it had been a privilege walking around school to such creative classrooms and workshops. A special thank you must go to local artists Laurence Hartwell and Maria Treseder who generously gave their time, for free, to provide the children in Yellow, Green and Blue Classes with workshops - their time, patience, skills and expertise is truly appreciated and we look forward to welcoming them back in the future. The dedication and collaboration from every member of the Heamoor School family, including parent/carer support, and our parent helpers who helped make our 3 wonderful school trips possible is what makes our school and Art Week so memorable.
Thank you again for your hard work and inspiration throughout Art Week!
Art Week Overview
Our Art Week focus this year was linked to the Fowey Literary Festival, the theme this year being ‘making waves’ and our whole school project, 'The Victorians'. Every Class from Red to Violet Class studied local artist, 'Alfred Wallis'. Wallis was a local fisherman, turned artist during his later years. He was alive during the Victorian times, and lived in St Ives before spending his final days in Madron. His artwork is currently on exhibition in the Tate, St Ives where two classes visited during the week.
Art Week kicked off with an assembly by Laurence Hartwell, an ex- fisherman, and now artist and lecturer, who came in and spoke to the children about Wallis and some of his work. Wallis painted from memory and his experience of being on and near the sea. Throughout the week, each class spent time thinking about their own special memories of the sea and what it means to them - with these memories the classes created collages, word clouds and displays.
Three trips went ahead, two to the Tate, St Ives where the children had the opportunity to see the work of Wallis and also the work of Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood, who were the two up and coming artists who spotted Wallis sitting at his kitchen table painting all those years ago. Wallis' house still stands in St Ives today and we made sure to include a visit in our busy itinerary before heading down to the main town to start sketching the harbour and its features. Orange Class took their trip to Mousehole where they met Harbour Master, Micky Bacon who shared his job role and responsibilities with the children before showing them some key features of the boats surrounding the harbour, ready for them to sketch their own!
Three workshops took place across 2 1/2 days! Laurence Hartwell used acrylic with the children, on cardboard, as per the style of Wallis. Yellow and Green Class used his paintings on display to create their own backgrounds. Then during the middle of the week, Maria Treseder led a safe print workshop with the same classes to create their boats, houses and tin mines, printing their ideas and designs onto their backgrounds.
The rest of the week took a slightly different route for each class, which can be seen on the next images with a breakdown for each class. I am thrilled to confirm we have sent 26 entries off to the Fowey Literary Festival to be seen by the judges. I hope you enjoy looking at the images below which celebrate and showcase our wonderful artists here at Heamoor. Well done everyone.
Mrs Trenerry (Art Lead)