05/17/10

  HOO   --  Hearts of Oak Organisation              

               We have been creating , organising and managing  Arts Projects for schools and Communities   for over twenty years . Running workshops and creating Public Artworks for Town Councils, villages, hospitals and schools. 

We  are now very experienced in this work.

                If you would like help with any aspect of an arts project in your  school or community please contact us...we can tell you about many succesful projects  we have done and can help with creative ideas ,  planning, funding and organisation - or just supply great artwork !

 Schools  -  Talk to us about your project - we can help with all aspects.

some examples of recent work :

Reepham School - Norfolk - 2007/8

A great project where Ben and Ray created six new sculptures around an outdoor teaching area and worked for a whole week with children - teaching them how to work with hand woodcarving chisels.

The children themselves did some wonderful carving around the sculptures.

Click here **** for more pictures of Reepham school......

.........and , in 2008 , we created a New Storytelling Area at Reepham, which we installed inside a Woven Willow Circle....

Woodbridge Primary School - Suffolk  - 2008/9

Here we worked with children using drawing and clay models to come up with ideas for Memorial Storytelling Seat   . Again the kids worked with mallets and  carving chisels embellishing the story tellers seat.                                   Ray and Andy M

Kings Lynn - Norfolk - Community Project at Hardings Pits   2006

Part of the project to reclaim this lovely site by the river in Kings Lynn

Click here to see   morepictures  Whale Seat - Ben

Clacton School - 2005. The designs came from a group of childen at the school in design workshops with Ben, Ray, Andy Ish and Andy M.

Click on the thumbnails to see larger pictures

Flower seat , 15ft diameter, Oak          Andy Manning

 Windmill , 9ft high Cedar(?)       Andy Ish

 Towers , 10ft high , Cedar              Ben Platts-Mills

 Lighthouse , 12ft high, Oak           Ray Brooks

Coppins Green Primary School - Clacton 2006

NOT a woodcarving project , but excellent work with kids to create a HUGE monument with over a thousand fired ceramic tiles .

Click on this link to see the schools website and pictures :

http://www.coppinsgreen.essex.sch.uk/gallery.htm

Coton    School    -    Cambridge

Work  created with the kids at this school ,Ben and Andy m in 2005

Delivering the wood from Suffolk