Pigeon Art Workshops

We have been established since 1999, with teaching skills and our artists' own talents as the starting point for our work. We take these ideas into schools and adapt them to working with the children and staff. We have also run corporate days on this same basis, the most recent being with the Terence Higgins' trust on one of their team building days.

We believe that what we offer is unique in that all of our team are able to work in all media not just in their own specialist field. We work in every media as the job requires, from printmaking to wood, textiles to metalwork. Our understanding of how schools and the curriculum work, and our ability to work with whole classes of children as well as small groups alongside our commitment to a 'big and different' art experience for the individuals we work with is at the heart of our approach.

We work in the classrooms in pairs alongside the teacher and on our staff training days we work as a team of approximately three, giving the maximum opportunity for everyone to benefit from individual support. We are a team that plans and prepares and shares ideas together rather than individuals working for a larger body. We don't work to a standard repertoire - every job we undertake is seen as indiviual to the body that has booked us.

We have an in depth portfolio on our website that demonstrates the range of our work. The most recent exhibitions are also there with pictures to highlight the main details.

Project 1

Summer 2007.
Mural project - eight murals on the outdoor walls of a school in Croydon. Each mural measured approximately 5' square, on a floral theme. The whole school worked on the project from the special needs nursery through to year 6.

Project 2

March 2008: Forthcoming:
Carnival masks for Carribean week in a school in Market Risborough, Bucks. Each class to work on the project for a performance/carnival at the end of the week.

Princes Risborough Primary school

Briony and two colleagues from Pigeon Workshops came to our school for two days in March to work with 5 classes of children from Foundation Stage and Key Stage One. They worked with the children to complete Caribbean carnival masks for a cultural themed week that we were having at the time. The work was of a high standard and the children thoroughly enjoyed the workshops. Briony and her colleagues were very good with the children and were very organised, ensuring all resources were provided and tidying up after each workshop.

10 April 2008

Barnet Homes

I wanted to say thank you for working with the children on the amazing mural. We were very pleased with Lydia and your professionalism, you made the children very welcome and also gave them the opportunity to put their own stamp on it without being too overpowering but still managed to make the mural look very good. We are very pleased with the service provided and look forward to working with you again soon.

10 April 2008