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Creative Caversham – Liz Real
POP ART – TO HELP OUT! by Elestr Lee LIFE MAY be changing in ways that were unimaginable at the start of 2020. But creative new ways of coping and living with the ‘new norms’ are […]
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Community Connections – Matt Emmett
Community Connections by Caroline Gratrix – Matt Emmett is a Caversham based landscape and heritage photographer. His eight-year photography project titled ‘Forgotten Heritage’ won him Architecture Photographer of the Year in 2016 and then the inaugural […]
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Bessie bakes her way into the news
The Covid-19 lockdown in summer 2020 was a difficult time for everyone. But for Caversham schoolgirls Bessie (10) and her sister Milly (12) it was especially tough having to cope with home-schooling while also helping […]
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Community Connections – Ruth Martin
Community Connections by Caroline Gratrix – During lockdown, kind hearted local candle maker Ruth Martin suspended production of her candles to make hand creams for local NHS workers. Ruth, along with neighbour and friend Antonia from […]
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Creative Caversham – Gloria Pitt
COLOURFUL CAVERSHAM by Elstr Lee Anyone who has completed the Caversham Arts Trail, or visited exhibitions put on by Caversham Artists, will have seen the stunning scarves designed and woven by textile designer Gloria Pitt. As […]
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Creative Caversham – Janina Maher
BROUGHT TO BOOK by Elestr Lee MANY OF us have coped with lockdown by catching up with some reading. And books – in the form of stationery – have also come in useful to store tidied-up […]
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Creative Caversham – Barbara Goodbun
DEARLY PRE-LOVED by Elestr Lee USUALLY, new works of art or craft are just that – new. However local artist Barbara Goodbun has for many years been creating wonderful works of art using old, recycled materials. Greta […]
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Creative Caversham – Charles Burns
LIFE ON THE SHARP EDGE by Elestr Lee MOST artists build up a range of favoured ‘tools of their trade’ – but Emmer Green silhouettist, Charles Burns, lives by just one item – his surgical scissors. […]
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Creative Caversham – Nina O’Connell
REFLECTIONS ON A LIFE DEVOTED TO ART by Elestr Lee WHILST for many of us lock-down suddenly meant spending unfamiliar amounts of time at home, for others ‘working from home’ has long been the norm. […]
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Match Postponed – Rachel Williams
For Sam and me, Saturday 2 May 2020 was to be our day, the day we said “I Do” at St Peter’s Church, Caversham. Instead, it was a day we celebrated, not our wedding day, […]