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Imagination Can’t Run

Here’s a little selection of pictures from projects I’ve done in schools from last term.

And here’s a short conversation between 7 year olds I wrote down word-for-word:

First child: “I like art because I don’t have to do just one thing. I can do a project, stop and not think. Then I can go back to my work and do something new and let my imagination run riot”

Second child: “But imagination can’t run or walk. It can only get bigger. It doesn’t have legs. It’s not human”

Every day when I get up early to do a day in a school, I feel tired and wish I could stay at home and work on my own stuff. Then I get to school and the moment a child speaks to me I know I’m in the right place and working with children is the best job in the world.

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By edboxall

I am a printmaker, illustrator, writer, storyteller and artist-educator based in the coastal town of Hastings, England. I have my own 'Pearbox Press' through which I publish my own richly visual story books and poems.

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