Art & Design

Throughout the pandemic, arts and crafts have been used to help people through difficult times and to express their moods, frustrations, fears and gratitude. Whether it has been the millions of rainbows displayed in windows across the country or people learning new skills to occupy long hours at home, art has been a comfort to millions over the last 18 months.

Once again in 2020-21, Churcher’s College pupils have risen to the challenge of Covid restrictions and lockdown and produced some outstanding artworks. Having experienced working remotely last year, the pupils in the Art Department were more than ready for the challenge and applied themselves admirably producing some fantastic Land Art photography and writing inspired by Mrs Roff, or reflecting their experiences of the pandemic with their creations for the A to Z of lockdown. At GCSE and A Level our Fifth Year and Upper Sixth faced a more difficult task of completing their work for their course, but as you would expect from Churcher’s pupils they rose to the occasion and produced some outstanding work.

At GCSE, the pandemic featured in a number of the pupils’ work, notably in paintings by Frank Hodges and Darcey Scott, and many works representing environmental issues with exceptional pieces by Nellie Lofthouse and Lola Texier.

Highlights of the Upper Sixth were wonderful textile-based landscapes by Tim Emmens, the surreal worlds imagined by Ella Conder, and superb portrait studies by Charlotte Matthews, Holly Goddard, Lucy Jackson and Iolanthe Sheene.

Mr D Robertson