Young Arts

ESDFAS Young Arts Bursary 

This year's ESDFAS Bursary has been awarded to Sarah Brown.
Sarah is 18 years of age and lives in Kelsale, Saxmundham with her parents. Whilst at Leiston High School she attained an "A" grade in Art, "B" in English and "D" in Sociology and has commenced a BA honours degree course in Fine Arts at UCS (Ipswich).She is modest by nature and mature for her age & her current ambition is to become an art teacher. She is working to support herself through university (at present two part time jobs) and will continue to live at home, commuting daily into Ipswich. 

 

 

 

2011 ESDFAS Young Arts Competition

Three paintings from the portfolios of young artists studying for A level in local schools have been selected for a £50 award in this year's ESDFAS Young Arts Competition. These works will be included in this year's NADFAS area exhibition which is due to be held in Cambridge Library October 31st to November 7th.   

Digital photographs of these paintings have also been put forward to NADFAS House for inclusion within a national competition which could lead to their work being hung within the NADFAS Exhibition being held next year at The Mall Galleries in London. 

              

               Kezia McManus 

       Daisy Skinner            Thomas Mills High School

Leiston High School                                                                         Yukiko Misaki                                                                                                               Framlingham College 

 

ESDFAS SUPPORTS COLDFAIR GREEN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Coldfair Green Primary School ended the Spring Term with a special literacy week. The school organised a series of events and workshops for the pupils, the core aim of which was both to develop pupils' skills in and to encourage an enthusiasm for reading and writing.   

 

Coldfair Green Primary School ended the Spring Term with a special literacy week. The school organised a series of events and workshops for the pupils, the core aim of which was both to develop pupils' skills in and to encourage an enthusiasm for reading and writing.   

ESDFAS was delighted to support this project and the Society's donation contributed substantially to funding the children's book illustrator, Gillian McClure, to work for a day in the school. The aim of this day was to encourage the development of pupils' skills through a combination imaginative      writing and drawing.

Gillian McClure & Annie Minton 

Gillian McClure worked with each class in the school and at the end of the day, presented prizes and held a question and answer session with the pupils. In one of the workshops, tackled with huge enthusiasm by the 8year olds, pupils were read the story of the 'Selkie' - about a young girl who is half-human and half-seal. However, they were not told the outcome but asked to write their own ending and then to illustrate it. Pupils were promised that they would hear the book's ending on return to school on Monday - creating too much suspense for one pupil who decided to buy the book to read over the week-end!   


Examples of the children's work



ESDFAS has also been active in supporting:

  • Suffolk Craft Society for its schools' project 'Ebb and Flow' 
  • Aldeburgh Primary School for an 'in-house' potter to work with pupils on a tile project
  • Jubilee Opera in its production of 'Noye's Fludde'
  • Aldeburgh Children's Film Festival contributing substantially to the cost of transporting children to the Festival.