Last Thursday I had a very enjoyable day leading an Art/Science event with students from our feeder Primary Schools. We used Darwin and his voyage on the HMS Beagle as our inspiration for the day, imagining we were the ship's artist carefully recording Darwin's botanical finds. Later in the day we became designers, using the botanical drawings as starting points for our own original print patterns. The prints were cut up and collaged to form a Tree of Life poster.....
