Lydia Fulleylove
Lydia Fulleylove is a UK based writer and writing and cross arts project facilitator. She has worked as Literature Education Development for the Arts Council and Isle of Wight Council. She has facilitated workshops in a wide range of community settings, including writer in residence for Healing Arts and as writer in residence at HMP Isle of Wight, Albany site. She has also led three Arts Council funded writing and arts projects.

Her first collection, Notes on Sea and Land, was published by Happenstance Press in 2011. Her poem Night Drive was shortlisted for the Forward Best Single poem Poetry Prize in 2010 and chosen for the Forward Poems of the Decade anthology.

She is most at home when out of doors, whether in the hills, woods or by the sea.

Telephone: 01983 740980
Email lydia@lydiafulleylove.co.uk
Website www.lydiafulleylove.co.uk


Colin Riches
Colin is a freelance artist who runs art projects in education, community, prison and mental healthcare settings. He is the arts team leader for three Healing Arts programmes researching the benefits of arts activities for adults with mental health difficulties, stroke patients and children with obesity. He was awarded a National Art Collections Fund Award for his work with long-term prisoners.

He exhibits regularly in the UK and has work in public and private collections in the UK and the USA. He has completed many public and private commissions, including two for the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham and five for St. Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight. A piece of his work was recently featured on Channel 4's Grand Designs programme.

His work, often deriving from transient visual memories of landscape features, is about the mapping of an inner landscape - giving shape to the hidden geography in which his spirituality and artistic practice have their roots. His website includes examples of his work and a video – From a Place of Unknowing which amplifies his approach to art making.

Telephone 01983 730961
Email richesart@hotmail.com
Website www.richesart.co.uk

We are very grateful for the inspirational and practical support of writer Philip Hoare, artist Lucy Wells, ecologists Keith and Ann Marston. We also very much appreciate the support of Susie and Jamie Sheldon and their staff at Kings Manor Farm.

Website design: Jeff Pigott www.jeffpigott.co.uk