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Create a view from your room Windowscape

Thank you to Nottingham Castle and Nottingham City Museums and Galleries for sharing this activity

Inspired by paintings you’ll be able to see when Nottingham Castle reopens next year, create a ‘windowscape’ – a view from a window at home with or without something in the foreground on the window sill. One of these inspiration paintings is Violas in the Window by Winifred Nicholson, below.

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Deborah Dean from Nottingham Museums and Galleries, our art expert, tells us: “one of Winifred Nicholson’s favourite subjects was a vase of flowers on a window sill, leading our eye to a view of the landscape beyond. The flowers act as a link between the domestic interior and the wider world outside, both filled with light and vivid colour.”

“Often called ‘windowscapes’ these paintings suggest the way most of us are viewing the world outside at the moment, from the safety of indoors, as so many of us ‘stay home’. We’d love you to share your own windowscapes with us – whether it’s a photo, drawing, collage or painting…what’s your view?”

You can use any artistic form to create your view. The Nottingham Castle team created the examples below.

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For more activities from Nottingham Castle, please visit their website.

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