Buzz

One of a series of fourteen hand-forged artworks, dotted along a trail beside the River Colne in the old port area of Colchester ( The Hythe). They are the work of a group of artists ( Andrew Rowe, David Mackie, Heather Parnell and Becky Adams) who worked with members of the local community to produce the sculptures. The trail begins ( or ends) at firstsite, the new arts' devlopment in Colchester town centre , which will open to the public on 25 September 2011.

 

The sculptures represent various aspects of either the wildlife or local history of the area and the whole trail is described in a specially written poem by Martin Newell of Wivenhoe, in which he assigns a verse to each sculpture. The details ( including a map of the trail) are available locally in Colchester.

 

'Buzz' can be found in the ( inaccessible) churchyard of St Leonard at Hythe, where it depicts the colony of wild bees which breed in the base of an old medieval stone clockface. Both hive and sculpture are visible from Hythe Hill.

 

In Martin Newell's words :

Here among St Leonard's features

Ancient beehive, working still

And the buzz of busy creatures

Drifting up to Timber Hill.

Done