Care home residents celebrate community farm with art

RESIDENTS from Milford House Care Home in Salisbury have been inspired by their regular visits to River Bourne Community Farm in Laverstock to create a series of art works that celebrate the farm. The art will feature in an up-coming exhibition at Waterstones in Salisbury from the end of August. The residents’ latest work showcases one of the fabulous Highland Cattle who live at the farm. Their colourful portrait was made using a combination of papiér maché and pieces of recycled material with stunning results.

Gemma Hicks, general manager at Milford House, said:

“Residents love visiting the farm regularly and interacting with the animals and other visitors, and these wonderful art works really are a celebration of their visits and the delight that they take from them.

“Art in all its forms is really popular with our residents and there are so many ways for everyone to join in, whatever their respective talents – be it coming up with ideas, creating the strips of fabric as in this case, choosing the colours, arranging the pieces, or more traditional painting and drawing.

“We have our own art gallery within the home so their work can be displayed for everyone to see and admire and we are so excited that there will be the opportunity for a wider audience to admire their creativity when we exhibit at Waterstones.

“We love what they create and they are rightly proud of what they produce and we can’t wait to see what comes next.”

Talking about the experience, one of the residents said: “I love going to the farm and seeing the animals and this was a really fun way to create a bit of the farm here at Milford.

“So many people have stopped by to say how much they love it.”