Graffiti Time Lapse Edited!

 

You know, in my life I do lots of amazingly creative and fabulous things but it is the moments like this morning that add the cherry to my wonderfully iced cake!

 

 

I found on the doorstop, in a jiffy bag .. the TIME LAPSE film of my Dragon Tree Spray at The National Botanic Garden of Wales with Lloyd Roberts & the children of Bigyn & Johnstown primary schools

 

 

The film was made by Darren Boxer and Susan Plant and it absolutely blew my socks off!

 

Thank you both so much.

You will never know how wonderful it was to see my vision come to life.

 

 

 

 

You can see the end film as part of my

Dragon Tree Production

which launches at

The National Botanic Garden of Wales

on 26th January.

 

I have a Dragon Roots Arts Installation

in the Gallery

from 20th January

 

and will also be performing some of the sound tracks from the film live, with dancers

on the 26th in The Marquee

before the film showcases.

 

If you can't make this date, I will be then taking the whole production to

St.David's Cathedral

Oriel Y Parc and

The Cwrt House

on February 16th ...

 

Then to

St.Cadoc's Church.

Trevethin on 28th February

6.00pm

 

After this date my funding from the Arts Council of Wales ends, but I have already been invited to tour The Dragon Tree films with live vocals in Ireland and Italy during 2013

 

If you would like to book the Film Exhibition with live vocals and/or the welsh language arts installation into your venue please feel free to drop me a line ...

 

cherylbeermusic@gmail.com

Planting the Dragon Tree: Wall Art

 

What an incredible day!!

It's very hard to explain what it feels like when an idea turns into a plan and then happens!

 

 

Today, Artist Lloyd Roberts came to The National Botanic Garden of Wales. I had sent him the design brief for The Dragon Tree.

He started mapping out his design based on my brief on the Education Room walls in The Great Glasshouse. He's such a good sport! You'll notice I made him do the entire 8 hour shoot dressed in the key costume links of our Dafydd character! Hat, scarf and braces!

 

 

Darren Boxer and Susan Plant set up the lighting and the camera to take what will be 25 images a second to condense the whole day into 6 minutes of time lapse film to be used in the final production with my other films.

 

 

 

20 children arrived with their teachers: 10 from Bigyn Primary and 10 from Johnstown Primary School.

 

 

We divided into teams and the children set to work filling in the allocated coloured spaces on the wall.

 

 

After they had left, Lloyd did all the outlining and final touches

 

 

We had barely time to think as the caretaker needed to lock up so we cleaned up and skidaddled out of there in the stillness of the dark night.

WOWZERS!!!!!

MASSIVE thankyou's

The National Botanic Garden of Wales

Lloyd Roberts

Darren Boxer

Susan Plant

Bigyn Primary School

Johnstown Primary School

The Arts Council of Wales for my Individual Mainline Grant enabling the whole happening

... But  you know what ... thank you to ME!! Yes, little old me, for pulling it off.


 

 

And tonight, I will fall fast asleep very quickly... and dream about a little girl from nowhere who today had the design brief of her new production planted as a seed to grow on the walls deep inside The Great Glasshouse of The National Botanic Garden of Wales and that makes me smile, it makes me proud, it makes me take a sharp intake of breath, it makes me pleased that I am me!

 

Wall Art Spray at National Botanic Garden of Wales

 

Photograph by Darren Boxer

Darren Boxer is making a time lapse film for me of a Wall Art Spray of The Dragon tree that I have commissioned with the grant from Lloyd Roberts who is a GENIUS artsit. I have organised for children to come from 2 local primary schools to help with the spray. It is taking place in the Education Room at The National Botanic Garden of Wales in The Great Glasshouse, which makes me very happy in my soul!

 

I am planting my Dragon Tree in my favourite place. A place that has had such an impact on me over the last 2 years. It feels very special indeed.

 

Darren is making a time lapse film of the spray for me which will be last in the series of films. Am so chuffed. He's been a real support throughout Fusion Inspire, taking wonderful photographs of castles on the coastline for the track 600 Castles.

 Artist Lloyd Roberts at work

Darren & I did a creative exchange. He made a time lapse film of the arrival of The Ghost Forest at The Garden and I composed the music for the film for him, recording and performing it in my studio ... and in exchange he is doing the time lapse film for me. Thank you so much Darren.

Creative Exchange is such an important survival technique in difficult times, but I have always worked like this. It develops life long collaborations and friendships. As a freelance self employed person, it can be isolating sometimes so working with the same group of people over the years gives one a sense of team, family, sharing of like minds, community and joy.

 

Many thanks to

The National Botanic Garden of Wales