Artclub visit to Stanhope Community Centre to see paintings

On Thursday July 11th the children who are in the artclub invited their families and friends to come and see their completed paintings.  They are on display at Stanhope Community Centre, where they have been designed for.

The artclub was asked by Claire Hogg, who is a Community Outreach Worker based at the Children's Centre in Lofthouse to make some artwork to brighten up the walls as they were bare.

As the community centre hosts a toddler's breakfast group we thought that large brightly coloured fruits would be simple and effective.  The idea developed into mosaics and mixed media paintings were the outcome.

We used the children's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" as inspiration for the paintings and we created our own version of each of the fruits he eats.  The caterpillar makes an appearance in each of the paintings too.



All the children had their picture taken for the Rothwell Record in front of one of the paintings.

They all agreed they looked great in situ and showed their friends and families which part of the paintings they had done.

Everybody enjoyed looking at the artwork and hopefully all those people who visit the community centre will do too.