Richard Keating

Visit to Slimbridge with Helen. Bewick Swans visiting. Great drawing opportunity. So much movement, so hard to capture. This as a part of the WtL River Severn project – interested in the comparisons between my walking journeys and bird migration. Through the woodland pilgrimage and Folly Wood project, I’m interested in the ideas of settlement and journeying, community and travel, sense of place as an inhabitant and visitor… this seems to be mirrored by bird migration. I’m particularly interested in Slimbridge’s Crane Project in the Somerset Levels as this falls within the wider Severn Project.

This won’t be included in my Thesis although the process is appropriate.

preparing for meeting between Joolz Bennett and family members regards co-habitation and Passivhaus

Making Amendments to Drawing Symposium article and adding to Watery Landscapes writing.

Discussing Derby Walk with Alison Parfitt.

emailing about Folly Wood tree planting.

“Watery Landscape” writing.

Outlining suggestions for Norwegian summer walk with Dr. Morten Clemetsen

updating blog and completing online tax return (with Helen, well Helen mainly really)

Writing session with Kel Portman and Dr. Iain Robertson based on our experiences of our First Friday walk of the year. Iain had written and emailed his initial thoughts. We all read them and discussed. We wrote again based on the discussions. We discussed each writing and then wrote again.

After lunch we agreed to our next steps having pretty well identified the focus for our joint writing and the overall shape of possible article for Journal of Arts and Communities.

First Tree Planting at Folly Wood. Upwards of 25 people planted, staked and put shelters on over 100 trees. Great soup and camaraderie.

Photos by Ivi Szaboova of Stroud Valleys Project

Heard that the proposal that Sue Porter and I had sent regards presenting at the Affective Landscape Conference in Derby at the end of May was successful.

Preparing a planting plan for the tree plant on Sunday. Adding hawthorn, hazel, field maple, guelder rose, bird and wild cherry, crab apple and wayfaring tree into the edge along Folly Lane – colour, scent, food, habitat, texture, variety..

Visit to “The Weaving Shed” in Stroud – ‘The Weaving Shed’ has been be set up in an empty shop in the High Street as a reconstruction from 1931, with looms, shuttles, fleece dye plants. Sally Hampson continues to ‘fulfill her dream of being a village weaver’ as SVA’s resident artist will weave cloth from Kitty Lake’s travel journals from the Outer Hebrides. The Weaving shed continues through to spring. Check venue and SVA for opening times.

Visit to British Museum to see the Grayson Perry exhibition – Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman – with Vision 21 Being Feasters.

Centre photo by Glenn Hall