This was another wonderful opportunity to collaborate with visual artist, Michelle O’Connor.  We shared stories and music for day-care centres, residential homes and visitors to Acton Scott and collected memories of heavy horses working the local land.  We then ran sessions for primary schools and nurseries, introducing them to Captain the percheron and each child made a clay horse lantern to contribute to an installation of 300 horse lanterns inspired by the Sacred Groves of Tamil Nadu and the role of the heavy horse in our past and folklore.

Clay horse lanterns at Acton Scott