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Ned Jackson Smyth, Artist and Art Tutor at our New Horizons Service in Bangor, has been working with a group of individuals living with mental health issues on a new bronze casting project.
The group explored the idea of “Healing” and developed their concepts through carving and drawing what represented healing to each individual.
Over the following weeks, as the works developed and new skills were acquired, the participants demonstrated increasing confidence in their ideas.
Working at the foundry offered a completely new experience for all raising self-esteem as each person witnessed their own casts coming to fruition!
And here is a lovely poem written by one of our talented Bangor clients, T. Reid, following the Bronze Casting Project:
