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Birds of our Shoreline There's a fluttering above your head these days, if you go through the entrance to the courtyard outside the Tea Rooms and The Gallery Upstairs. Management at Upton Country Park have long thought this was a dark and uninviting entrance, so members of Poole and East Dorset Art Society and the Gallery committee were asked for their help. The resulting display is part of the Upton Country Park Discovery Project. Back in the summer you may have noticed the appearance of a blue sky and fluffy white clouds, just waiting for some bird-life. With the help of staff from “Birds of Poole Harbour”, PEDAS artists identified some of the iconic birds of this area, and the project “Birds of our Shoreline” was under way. The artists drew out scale drawings of birds in flight, cut out life-sized outlines on foam board which were then transposed by the group “Poole Men’s Sheds” onto MDF and carefully cut out. The birds range in size from the tiny kingfisher to the magnificent black backed gull with its one and a half metre wingspan. The “fun bit” for the artists was to add the lifelike colouring with acrylic paint. The “not so fun bit” was finding a way to attach them safely to the ceiling in line with Health and Safety guidelines concerning small fingers reaching into them and getting trapped. Much thought was given to the arrangement of the “fly-past” to show them to best advantage. An identification board is being prepared to add to the display, and possibly a few more birds too. Meanwhile look up as you enter the courtyard and see if you can name them all. Liz Magee
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A super special day today - Saturday 14th! From 11 am - 1pm we're holding a Launch Party for the exhibition 'A Feeling for Art', and you are invited to join us. Come along, enjoy the art, the refreshments and nibbles and chat to the artists about their work.  A glimpse of some of the super work on show... Forthcoming exhibitions: 2 - 6 November 2023 FORTITUDE Art exhibition of Service Dogs Nicola-Anne Pepe 9 - 14 November 2023 THE OPPORTUNISTS Paintings, sculpture, browser work and greetings cards. Featuring artists: Pamela Marshall, David Roberts, Sally Holland, Liz Magee, Steph Jones, Barry Kavanagh, John Biggs, Carol Cox. 16th - 27th November 2023 TROVE by Neat Image Photography, poetry and sculpture. 1st - 20th December 2023 GALLERY UPSTAIRS, UPTON COUNTRY PARK OPEN 2023 on the theme: 'Atmosphere' Exhibition of selected work by local artists. See www.thegalleryupstairs.org.uk for submission details.  ART IN POOLE PARK Come and take part this weekend!  Art Pro Loco at Poole Park Poole Park Artists and Makers Studio From Friday 28th July through the weekend, to Monday 31st July for voting and prizegiving How it works
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