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One of the interesting aspects of the art program at prep schools is the range and variety of art making. There are the standard drawing, painting, pottery, nd prunt making. But there is a great deal more. The teachers involved hav added a great deal of imagination to vary the program in an effort to stimulate the children's imagination and expand their concept of art and art making.
.... Some of the most popular [art] work (or play) done by younger boys at Bramcote was making robots and spaceships from egg cartons, toilet roll centres and old plasric containers glued together and painted. Who can imagine what these weird and extreme shapes conveyed to their inventors? They must have brought immense satisfaction and amusement when they were made. But in the summer exhibition these sculptures seemed relics of past hours of play; a kind of indulgence. In the junior art room the visitor was delighted by many more essays in shape and form and colour. The joie de vivre which their teacher Susan Floyd commuicates with everyone is apparent; we saw paper mosaics, colourful cornets (inspired by a certain tv advertisement for ice-cream), spatter painting after the mess had been cleared, and a clever technique where silver foil was given an embossed pattern by laying it over string glued into a simple design. The second and third forms had a hand in making thumb pots, while the fourth form had a turn at making coil pottery. ....
Andrew Brownridge, The Bramcote Magazine, Autumn 1978
