ECCLESTON GEORGE PUBLIC ARTISTS

....so let it bee. We're now making a whole bunch of Nutshell Seats for our lovely friends from Gift to Nature and their Let it Bee campaign at the Isle of Wight Festival 2012.

So if you're going to the Isle of Wight Festival this year why not visit The Hive, festival home of Gift to Nature, and place you bum in a Nutshell and chill for a while.

Come and join us and our friends for an afternoon of free family fun.

No need to fight because actually you can have both. Thanks to our Dave and Dan you can now make your favorite flavoured smoothie whilst you pedal from A to B. This clever device will dice and slice just about anything as long as you keep pedalling.....no batteries required and certainly no mains electriciity needed, just the power of your own muscles will do, you can't get more environmentally friendly than that can you!

You'll be able to have ago at making your own sustainable smoothie at this year's Royal Agricultural Show on the Isle of Wight courtesy of Media Housing an Island based social housing company who have a stand at the show.  The bikes have been commissioned by Suzie Mundell as part of the Incredible Edible Wight project , which is hosted by Medina Housing Association.

Median Housing will be taking the Smoothie Bikes to Island events in order to promote the brilliant Incredible Edible project.  Food Inspirer, Rachel Brown from Dairy Cottage Kitchen will be organising the smoothie making, whilst  Suzie will be drumming up  interest for the Incredible Edible movement.

There will be two smoothie bikes to choose from both made by Eccleston George for the event and then after the show we'll share the smoothie bikes with them so that we can both use them for special events and such like.

So look out for our smoothie bikes this summer at an event near you.

Here we all are in Söderhamn outside the old train station where we had just finished making a giant art-book relating to the Comenius project we're all involved with called 'Embedding a Culture of Enterprise and Creativity in the Curriculum'. Teaching professionals from all over Europe got involved with the making of this beautiful 'accordion' style art-book under the expert guidance of our very good friend, artist Ian whitmore . Hopefully we'll have some close-up photos of the book to show you very soon.

.....is the name of the event that Nige and Dan will be heading for next week in Sweden.  Our chaps have been asked to speak at the international conference which is all about enterprise and creativity. Our boys will deliver talks about Eccleston George and it's education/ community work in the UK in several seminars duing the two day event .  On day two of the event Nige and Dan will be be joined by brilliant Isle of Wight artist Ian Whitmore for some hands-on making workshops designed to get delegates thinking and working creatively. We'll let you know how they all got on when they return.

Our man Darren Brazer has been extremely busy at The Works making a superb array of faux bois (fake wood) artworks that you can buy directly from him or at various outlets yet to be determined. Most of his sculptural creations take the form of usable planters, garden seats and tables the like of which you've never seen before.

The technique Darren has perfected so beautifully actually originates from Mexico and has been around for over a hundred years, known there as Trabajo Rustico (rustic work) the technique has been used to create sculptural public art works and municiple structures like public shelters, pedestrian bridges and even bus stop shelters.

We've used this brilliant technique a few times in our big landscape projects and now Darren is giving everyone a chance to own their own piece of rustic work faux bois.

It's been a few months now since we moved into our new studio space on Sandown seafront and already it's changed the way we go about our business. Small and tentative first steps in our new home have led to big ideas and we're now really excited about what's coming up next.

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Currently at least four bands are using 'the tidy room' at The Works for band practice in the evenings. Much making is going on in 'the messy room' at the moment with loads more making to come. We've signed up for Open Studios for the first time in our 12 year history too, so make sure you come and see us in July when the event takes place.

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In the meantime we'll keep cooking up ideas for projects from our studio, actually with that in mind if you want to come and talk to us about what we do or indeed about what you do then feel free to swing by and say hello, talk nonsense, have a cuppa, strum a banjo or play a round of golf.

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Find out more about The Works at www.theworks-studio.org.uk