The Young Ambassadors group spent a weekend at the Coldwell Centre, between Widdop and Trawden, working with myself on art, Andrew on writing and Gavin on archaeology.

Cronologically- Gavin did a walk at Ilkley Moor to look at the cup & ring stones, the traces of a settlement and to talk about the people who lived there 4,000 years ago. I led some artmaking at The Bridestones physically engaging with the rocks and making their mark with clay, paper and ink. Andrew led a writing workshop at the centre , thinking about responding imaginatively to place. Then I wrapped up with another workshop in the centre, bringing ideas together with materials in an exploratory but more controlled way. These are some images at The Bridestones, separate post for back at the centre

the group out – it was glorious up there: cold but not freezing, extremely windy  and bright. I prompted and they responded in whatever way they wanted:

making small scale sculptural interventions,

trying to take rubbings of the surfaces of the rocks- difficult in the wind

and , going with the wind as a “drawing tool”- dropping ink on  the largest piece of paper they felt they could handle- and letting the wind blow it out , helped a little by scratching with heather…..