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Brave Artists send Greetings from Lowestoft

20 Apr, 2023

We had a lovely session with the Brave Art students and Caitlin at the Kirkley Centre.

The students watched a short presentation created by Suffolk Archives, all about how Lowestoft developed as a successful seaside resort.

There was lots of chat about how things had changed and stories about growing up in the town; one participant told us about how her mother saw a seahorse one day, the water was so clear, and that there were often porpoises swimming off shore.

The group made an array of wonderfully colourful, imaginative images to illustrate some of the attractions offered by Lowestoft; next week, they’ll be working with Max, to write messages inviting friends and family to visit the First Light Festival.

A collaged postcard, with an image of children in swimsuits playing on a sandy beach against a background of beach huts and large hotels, with a border in gold and blue with a blue wooden fish top left, a pink wooden fish top right, a light blue wooden fish bottom left and a plain wooden fish bottom right

A lovely day at the seaside

A postcard collaged with paper and wooden shapes, with a black border along the bottom, above which are cut-out shapes of sandcastles, stones and hand drawn people. Above it a strip of blue paper with two wooden fish glued and a black paper boat. The sky above is created with a strip of blue patterned paper, overlaid with white clouds and a yellow sun

Fish and sandcastles

Strips of yellow dotted paper are stuck to the bottom of the postcard, resembling a sandy beach. The middle section is decorated with tiny pieces of paper in assorted shades of blue, depicting the sea, and there are two purple wooded fish glued in place. The top portion of the card has pieces of dark blue paper stuck down, suggesting a dark sky

The seaside

A postcard collaged with images from vintage postcards including a child riding a donkey, children playing on a sandy beach and people relaxing in deckchairs. A small pink wooden fish is glued centre left

Seaside attractions

Snippets of shiny gold, silver and green paper surround an image of a young person with long black hair, wearing a yellow T-shirt and yellow head band. The word Dude is underneath. The picture is framed in strips of black paper and there is a cut out image of a key, two gold arrows and a statue of Triten on the far right hand side

Cool Lowestoft Dude

An image of children playing on a sandy beach with a border of tissue paper with tiny hearts. Top right is a disc, with a yellow disc centred, surrounded by snippets of music notation. Bottom right is written Bring Me Sunshine

Bring me sunshine

A collaged postcard featuring images of a map of the UK, people on a beach against a background of beach huts, a handbag in the top left corner and the bottom third of the card depicting the sea, fish and beach stones

Where will you go on holiday?

A collaged postcard with a background of tiny snippets of coloured and decorated paper, overlaid with 8 small wooden fish glued on top, each individually colour yellow, red, green or brown

Eight colourful fish

A collaged postcard with a back ground view of children in swimsuits on a sandy beach and overlaid with a border of yellow and green tape, decorative paper along the bottom and a small wooden pink fish glued on the left hand corner

A lovely day on the beach

A reproduction of a vintage postcard, showing the pier and beach at Lowestoft is bordered by colourful strips of paper to resemble curtains and the words Hollywood written above the scene and East Coast below

Picture Postcard

A vintage Greetings from Lowestoft postcard features in the centre; a 2-pence piece stuck in the centre of a lifebuoy. The image is laid over blue, sea-like paper and bordered by a small wooden boat and anchor to the left and a blue and pink fish below

Penny slot machine

A collaged postcard with a background of blue sky and sea with small figures cut out and stuck over. In the foreground is a monotone print of a yound woman in a striped jacket, a hat and a glove. A black, white and orange butterfly seems to have landed on the hat. Also in the foreground is an image of a row of beach huts and there is a floral patterned border along the bottom

Beach huts, blazers and a beautiful butterfly

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