Gyosei Art Trail 4 - By the Grand Union Canal - Milton Keynes 17Feb17 b
Taken from a Great Linford Parish Council leaflet.
Commemorating the legacy of Gyosei International School UK. The Japanese co-educational boarding school and playing fields closed in 2002 and the site at Willen Park South was redeveloped as Lovat Fields Village and Barret Homes Gyosei housing scheme.
Developer funding paid for eight artworks in Phase 1, which
are related to the themes of; Japanese Connections, Canal
History, Fish, Fowl, Insects and Invertebrates.
The trail is located on both sides of the Grand Union
Canal from H3 Monks Way to H5 Portway and is accessible
from the local redway network.
Local birds and plants
Laura’s seven enamel panels presenting local birds using a Japanese aesthetic, combine her training in Japanese woodblock and her experience of Japanese art with the practicality of vitreous enamelling. The panels are inspired by birds and plants that visitors to the canal are likely to see around them throughout the year. Laura has combined her imagery with Japanese short poems to bring together both local and Japanese ideas about seasonality and local wildlife, celebrating both the Japanese theme of the Gyosei Art Trail and the richness of the canal environment.
On the side of a road bridge over the Grand Union canal.
Gyosei Art Trail 4 - By the Grand Union Canal - Milton Keynes 17Feb17 b
Taken from a Great Linford Parish Council leaflet.
Commemorating the legacy of Gyosei International School UK. The Japanese co-educational boarding school and playing fields closed in 2002 and the site at Willen Park South was redeveloped as Lovat Fields Village and Barret Homes Gyosei housing scheme.
Developer funding paid for eight artworks in Phase 1, which
are related to the themes of; Japanese Connections, Canal
History, Fish, Fowl, Insects and Invertebrates.
The trail is located on both sides of the Grand Union
Canal from H3 Monks Way to H5 Portway and is accessible
from the local redway network.
Local birds and plants
Laura’s seven enamel panels presenting local birds using a Japanese aesthetic, combine her training in Japanese woodblock and her experience of Japanese art with the practicality of vitreous enamelling. The panels are inspired by birds and plants that visitors to the canal are likely to see around them throughout the year. Laura has combined her imagery with Japanese short poems to bring together both local and Japanese ideas about seasonality and local wildlife, celebrating both the Japanese theme of the Gyosei Art Trail and the richness of the canal environment.
On the side of a road bridge over the Grand Union canal.