I LOVE colour. And I'm very lucky to be surrounded by it everyday in The Paint Pottle [https://www.thepaintpottle.co.uk] studio.

I am a very visual person so I'm conscious of how colours affect me but often the impact colours have on our emotions and behaviour can go unnoticed or even neglected. There's a brilliant 'dip in and out' book by Kassia St Clair called The Secret Lives of Colour [https://share.google/hGiiV5F9FJwBwFcI8] which touches on the ways in which colour has influenced our lives over time (we have a copy in the shop if you ever wanted to sit and have a lovely cake and coffee from The Village Cafe and have a read while your little ones paint pottery!)

So, when Lara and I were approached to collaborate with the Clean Up, Colour Up team last year which saw us inject bursts of colour and joy into our town by painting utility boxes, we absolutely jumped at the chance knowing that colour can contribute so much to our sense of wellbeing. 

And now we want to do more to bring more colour and art to our streets with a public art walking trail and we'd love your help to grow the project and further shape our ideas. 

We already have some fantastic pieces of art in the town (think Frank the Plank at Union Wharf, our beautiful gilded grammar school building, textile banners in the church, the Swedish Maiden mosaics in the library) but we'd like to add more artworks to Market Harborough which tell our story and reflect our community, spark joy for our residents and make people want to visit our lovely town.  

We currently have a pilot art trail in the making but we would like your help in further shaping our ideas - what does art mean to you and what should it look like in our town? We especially want to hear from our younger residents so please complete this super quick and easy survey then share far and wide! 

Click here for survey: https://forms.gle/nvZYnWCgHbxFAYFb7

Thank you so much.

Claire Webb
The Paint Pottle
The Village
65 St Marys Road
Market Harborough
Leicestershire. LE16 7DS

Tel: 07900 090851