Artist running Lowestoft Folk Session

Artist Caitlin Howells wearing a red Suffolk Artlink apron, holding a piece of the cardboard contemporary Suffolk Quilt for the group to see. School children and elderly people from Hildesley Court Residential Home can be seen in the background sitting at tables with various art materials, listening to Caitlin.

Over the course of two years, artists led school pupils and care home residents in an exploration of artifacts and stories found in Lowestoft Museum and the Maritime Museum, including quilts, porcelain and paintings, dolls houses, scale model boats, ship figureheads and sea shanties.

Through 12 weekly creative workshops, the inter-generational pairings shared their memories and experiences of local folk traditions with each other and created contemporary folk art, to be added to the Museums’ existing collections.