Our gardener James is keen to do something creative with the blocked off archway in the garden here at Stoke Lodge.  He suggested asking a local artist to design a picture to be painted in the space.

James asked 4 local artists if they would like to submit a basic design for the space, we paid each artist a small sum to come up with a rough sketch and told them we wanted to put the final decision on which design to choose to you, our learners and our local community.                                                         
We are going to show you the 'blank canvas' and the 4 potential designs. We want you to choose the option that you think would be best suited to the space.                                                                                                                  
We will add up the results and ask that artist to create their design in the space.

Please remember we asked all the artists to do just a basic rough sketch in black and white so the final piece may be slightly different.

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