Bearpark Artists’ Co-op
Bearpark Artists’ Co-operative, established in 1993, is an independent group of studio-based professional painters located in Durham, UK. For several decades they have run an art workshop for adults with learning disabilities known as the Monday Afternoon Group.
Making Faces
This film is simultaneously a portrait of the Monday Afternoon Group, a portrait of the people in the group and a portrait of artist Romey Chaffer, who was drawing portraits of the people in the group when I filmed it. It is I suppose a portrait that is a reflection on making portraits. I hope you can see in the film the warm relationship I had with many members of the group - some established over decades of working with the group as an artist
Jungle Animation
This animated film is a collaboration with members of the Monday Afternoon Group, who created the animals, backgrounds and sound effects and helped me to animate the movements.