See You Outside, an Arts Council funded Visual Art and Creative Writing project for children and young people, evolved over a six month period during 2008. The project involved three Bradford schools, Brackenhill primary school in Great Horton, Idle Church of England primary school in Thackley, and Titus Salt secondary school in Baildon.

The project centred on visual art field-trips and on-site creative activities at Ogden Water, a reservoir near Halifax and Buck Wood in Thackley a suburb of Bradford.

Participants took part in observational drawing and painting using unusual and experimental materials such as quill pens and paint made from local earth, bookmaking, cyanotype photograms and Intaglio printmaking 'en plein air' using a mobile studio and portable etching press on the ruined site of the former Open Air School founded in Buck Wood in 1908.

The project culminated in an exhibition and celebration event in the studio at Impressions Gallery, Centenary Square, Bradford.

One of the aims of the project was to initiate a dialogue between children from different schools and this was achieved through a weblog where participants could view and comment on work done by the other children.
The weblog remains on-line as a permanent archive and can be viewed here:

Weblog