Great day with a special behind the scenes guided tour of Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset today. The National Trust have just invested quite a lot time and money in to renovations of the building and have created a fabulous place to visit. (Opens again in March 2012.) Lots of touchy feely and interactive elements but done circa 1800's style, so you can make bread (ish), write poetry with a quill, and sit on the furniture (except the bed!)
There was a whole board of poetry from visitors inspired by the works, but this one stood out, as well as the Ode to the Goldfish, but you'll have to visit to see that one!
The premise of the visit was to become inspired for the Coleridge Way which runs for 36 miles from Nether Stowey to Porlock, meandering over the Quantocks and Exmoor National park on the way. The idea is to create some Storywalks or like based around these parts, and all in all it was a great day.
So lets hope the funding streams start to flow and we can get some truly diverse and dynamic GPS triggered art activity going.
A lot of the exhibits were getting the turn down treatment for the winter, along with these acid free paper hats for the paintings. I love these subtle wrappings, tucked up in bed for the winter!
Ralph Hoyte and Tracey Robers were in the party as well, (Tracey from Artlife organised this so should be great stuff ahead, and Ralph creates geo sound scapes, so similar works but very different too!)
So many thanks to the curator Caroline who gave us the tour and opened the doors on a winters day.
I do have a few ideas up my sleeve as to works to create but I shall not be giving the game away just yet. There is a lot of work to do before this one goes live and some projects never do! So fingers crossed that this one will bear fruit.
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