Coterie Tea Rooms’ window, Rye goes theatrical - to celebrate a Dickensian Christmas!

Published: 23 December 2015

The team at the Coterie Tea Room, Rye have been getting in to the Christmas spirit with their festive window - their entry to Rye’s ‘Best-Dressed Christmas Shop Window’ competition. Working in collaboration with Art at the Farm (another COT life skills project, like the Coterie Tea Room) the students created a fantastic piece of art in the Team Room window.

The theme set by the town this year was ‘a Dickensian Christmas’, and so the team decided that they liked the idea of creating a theatre set inspired piece, with lots of layers and textures, with shadow and silhouette creating the scenes. They wanted to include many different mediums and techniques in the piece, in order to involve as many of our artists (who are also service users at COT) as possible.

Alan Davies, Art at the Farm Manager, said “The window includes fabric backdrops, with batik, collage and screen print, modelling board houses and people, and ceramic people, also beautiful ceramic stars on invisible thread, help to complete the scene. We are very pleased with the overall effect.”

The Coterie Tea Room and Art at the Farm, are both life skills projects run by the Canterbury Oast Trust, to help support adults with learning disability in Kent and East Sussex. For more information about the Canterbury Oast Trust, please call our Fundraising team on 01233 861 493.