Completed artworks Friends & Family Tree

Connections and memories in time, whether linked by threads with family, friends, or support teams, are incredibly meaningful and valuable, creating a strong sense of belonging and adding purpose. Our artists created artworks relating to themselves and their networks. Take time to explore them and their meaning. Enjoy the gallery from this topic.

Friends & Family Tree - Barbara

Barbara - painted her mum's Family Coat of Arms from her ancestors, as seen in its original form, in a stained-glass window from Workington Hall, Cumberland, UK.

Barbara explained the details of the sections, among them are the coats of arms of all the various families that have been married into. There's a motif across the bottom central panel that reads 'Si je'nestoy'. The date inscribed is 1634. The Latin translates to 'If I am not there'.

This is a beautiful piece of art of great significance to Barbara's family; the details are exquisite, and the research undertaken was extensive to ensure all was accurate. We appreciated you sharing your work and your story with us. You will have inspired others to look into their roots, through their family history and coats of arms, outside of this session. A watercolour painting.

Friends & Family Tree - Scott

Scott - designed and drew a shield with his deep roots, emanating from Cornwall and the steaming Cornish pasties on either side of this. A traditionally made food item associated with this region. Beneath the flag of Kernow, hands are gesturing the BSL sign for inclusion associated with the All4inclusion group. All these, Scott explained, are a part of his friends and family tree. Ink on paper. An incredibly well-thought-out piece of work, showing meaningful aspects and spans across genres of accessibility, too. This is fabulous!

Friends, family and support tree by Phil

Phil - An amazing compilation of photographs, great to see all your connections! Your family, friends, and support workers who are part of your wider team, who assist you in the community and provide important links and help you shape and plan meetings. And the special memories you make with all your family and friends, so many happy memories to look back on, and you inspired other members to work on photo collages also. Thank you, Phil, for sharing your idea and the tech you use. Canva and Google Gemini

Friends & Family Tree - Andy (1)

Friends & Family Tree Andy (2)

Andy - For this topic, Andy created two different pieces of artwork. His first focused on a memory associated with time spent away with his family and the palm trees of Lanzarote. Created using soft pastels and watercolour.

Andy's second artwork is his family, captured by photographs. Lovely memories, shared with us and to look back on. Generated using a photo collage maker.

Friends & Family Tree Donna

Donna - displayed her family tree as stick characters. She used a graphite pencil.

A lot of different ideas came through from this topic. Some members of the group spent time working on finishing other projects, as it can be difficult to think about connecting with friends and family if you experience isolation; however, this is an important topic, and the session was a great opportunity for those wishing to explore their links a bit more.

Great works, detail and meaning. If you would like to join, look out for our next topic, and join us on link tree link and select All4Art, Wednesday 7:30pm.

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