Creative Rainforest Project

As part of Nevis Landscape Partnership's Creative Rainforest Project for Nevis Nature Network, I co planned and delivered a series of 4 socially engaged art sessions. Sessions 1 and 2: Working with young pupils from a local primary school, as a follow on from some educational visits by the NLP team, the children creatively explored what it felt like to be living in a temparate rainforest. Each class collaborated on a 1m x 1m acrylic canvas painting, to represent their final ideas. These paintings were then displayed as part of the Creative Rainforest Showcase. Session 3: As part of the Fort William Mountain Festival 2026 explore events, I led a creative outdoor walk on behalf of NLP, with the aim of engaging people with the temparate rainforest. Using our senses as a framework to consider the environment, participants produced a variety of responses in their concertina sketchbooks. Session 4: I delivered a drop in mono screen printing session as part of the Creative Rainforest Showcase, hosted at the Highland Soap Visitor Centre. Creating 3 stencils on the screens of native leaf types - a hazel, rowan and oak - participants selected which they would like to paint in and produce a screen print of.