Llandudno care home residents have been busy creating art for The Sketchbook Project at New York’s Brooklyn Art Library. Residents and staff at RMBI Care Co. Home Queen Elizabeth Court in Llandudno have taken part in The Sketchbook Project started in 2006 and currently has over 50,000 sketchbooks from 30,000 different creative people globally. Research has found that art sessions can have a positive effect during unsettling times, which helps to combat mental strain by unleashing the imagination to escape, and be innovative. Residents and staff had fun unleashing their artistic nature by drawing and painting over the past few weeks. Their completed artwork will be included in the Sketchbook Project and will be added to the shelves of a permanent collection at Brooklyn Art Library.
My New Orleans
04/15/2021
For would-be honeymooners waiting to go to their fantasy location, a mini-moon beckons. Visiting an easier to access place as the world heals can satisfy those travel cravings as you await the dream event.
You’ve always wanted to visit Brooklyn it just seems so cool. So, she books you a room at The Hoxton, Williamsburg, a hotel which embodies the hip borough’s body and soul. You’ve been to Manhattan now you’re ready to take (with apologies to Leonard Cohen) Williamsburg.
Part of the canny, neighborhood-inspired, global hotel group, this property opened up as the first in the United States, with goals of evoking the creative, gritty, iconoclastic mood of its environs. Right away, locals claimed it as a hangout haven, a sure sign that it succeeded in its mission. On the northern end of Wythe Avenue, it sits in the heart of the hood. Not pretentious, The Hoxton offers room in three categories “Cosy,” “Cosy with a View” and “Roomy.”
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“My first vivid art memory is of my grandmother and I,” said Calli Laundrè during this week’s episode of Art on the Air. “We were laying on the floor of her living room, and we were coloring in a coloring book. And I remember watching her make her marks, and they were so precise and so smooth. And I just wanted so badly to color like her.”
Many of us have had an experience like Calli’s, surrounded by a mishmash of art supplies, joyfully working away at pure creation, not a care in the world. I have said it countless times on my radio show (and really anytime and anywhere I can where it even vaguely makes sense) that when we’re four years old we’re all artists; life unteaches us to be creative.
Walsham le Willows
In October 2020, the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic forced Whitecourt’s TravelPlus Agency to close its doors. In its closure, though, co-owner Sherry Robinson-Rooks saw a new opportunity. She decided to remain in the building on 51st Avenue and convert it into Walsham le Willows, a personal art studio where she now makes and sells her own artwork.
The studio, named after the English village where her grandmother grew up, features a beautiful assortment of art made by Robinson-Rooks and a few of her close colleagues. On the studio’s Instagram account, Robinson-Rooks writes that she works with acrylics, alcohol inks, coloured pencils, watercolour, encaustic, stained glass, and mosaic. Additionally, she has also started making her paper in-house, using recycled paper shreds; several pieces on display are painted on this textured, handmade paper. “I’m just in the learning process [of making paper], but it’s always fun to dabble in different thin