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| Richard, Nicky and Lily |
This year Nicky Harvey died. I was so moved by her story with us.
I met Nicky through a mutual friend, a chance conversation, led to us chatting about our children, her youngest daughter Lily is an artist living remotely at home in Spain. We chatted about Shallal and Lily and her cross artform creativity work reminded me of Eddie.
Lily and her family made friends with Eddie and his family, and they visited each other.
When we were starting zooms, Lily joined us, after the pandemic we didn’t want to loose touch so continued the zooms, sometimes Lily is in 3 – 4 Shallal dance or art sessions a week via zoom: Zoom Dance and Art Connection, Express Yourself, Shallal2 and Shallal Sketchbooks.
At the very beginning Nicky was out of sight but in the background supporting Lily's participation. Nicky's creativity quietly supported Lily's amazing work.
https://youtu.be/fMRwgYY7Mhw?si=E6Lt40jeidRkBc49
Lily is a core member of our zoom Art Connection group which wanted to try illustration and so Nicky wrote a childrens short story or two! for them to try to illustrate!
You can see Helens drawings and hear Nicky read the stories on ……
https://youtu.be/moIjkxp2moY?si=HiO9Tj4Hr_jn9Pw7
https://youtu.be/lEsdRcvpdFU?si=zUu-8sDAz2v-3hKR
Lily and her parents would dress up and join in the Christmas party zooms! I think we all enjoy the feeling of reaching out internationally.
We recently had an exhibition which featured many prints of of Lily’s art work firstly at the Community gallery, Falmouth Art Gallery and it is now at Proper Job Café County Hall.
Lily continues to join us and she and her family support us.
Lily has good friends she has met through Shallal and her creativity has extended into dance sessions with Demelza over Zoom.
Shallal often makes friendships with artists families/support as well as the artist.
In our visioning meetings Nicky thanked everyone for "making Shallal such a safe and inspiring experience" and had dream of "a Shallal week in the mountains" where they lived.
