During the summer of 2021 & 2022, I led a number of art sessions at Long Mead Meadow, Oxfordshire with fantastic insight and information from Catriona Bass founder of the Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project.

The Meadow is ablaze with colour and activity in July: a rich tapestry of grasses and wild flowers, home to and visited by a rich abundance of birds, bees, butterflies and invertebrates. Despite this riot of wildlife it is an oasis of calm -so it was the perfect place for artists and keen creatives to find much inspiration and possibility -from landscape vistas across the river to the bridge and over Wytham Woods  -to the complex embroidery of Great Burnet, Meadowsweet, Ladies Bedstraw and Purple Vetch -not to mention the palette of greens, golds, copper and crimson.