Description: Isobel Coney, outdoor art educator
art (55368) outdoor education (145) felting (132)
“By looking at the details of the natural world, the changing seasons, the plants and wild life they begin to see how they fit into the world and what they need to do to protect this amazing natural world. They start to understand the rhythm of nature and how it can lead to creative work.”
Isobel Coney is a qualified (Goldsmiths College, 1998), experienced Secondary School art and textiles teacher, with commercial textile experience and three successful years teaching GCSE, GNVQ and A-level at St. Marylebone School in London. She has also worked in the United States with younger age groups (2-10), and now teaches students and teachers to develop and use art in the outdoor environment.
Isobel’s projects have combined cultural, environmental and historical studies with art, with techniques spanning painting, quilting, felting, knitting, batik, print-making, hand-made paper and woodland crafts. She works equally well with adults and children, having extensive experience teaching in schools and in an instructor-training environment.