The day we created a banner

A while ago Mat attended a group led by Clive Parkinson from Manchester Metropolitan University. He heads up the Arts For Health section and is currently creating a Manifesto (see http://artsandhealthmanifesto.blogspot.com/ for more). As part of this Alison Clough from Pioneer Projects in Bentham showed a technique for lettering and creating figures. Mat thought this was a good idea so he introduced it to the Wellart group to produce a banner about WellArt.

First letters to make the words are cut roughly by eye in dark paper. These are then stuck onto white paper and cut out again with a small border. The letters can then be arranged on a large piece of coloured paper. The figures were created by tearing up coloured paper. By tearing blocks to make up different parts of the body a feel of movement can be given to the figures. These were then all arranged with the words they went with to create the finished banner.