CHILDREN have been using the work of a local artist as inspiration for a poetry competition.
Chipping Norton School teamed up with Irene Tyack, who lives at Church Westcote, near Burford, to produce poems inspired by the artist’s paintings.Pupils in Years Seven and Eight, as well as Year Six pupils from its 10 feeder primary schools, were challenged to write poems. They wrote more than 100 poems, from that two winners will be chosen, with the writers receiving one of Mrs Tyack’s pictures as prizes.
The best 50 poems will be published in a book which will be sold at Chipping Norton’s Jaffe & Neale bookshop to raise money for the Imingcangathelo School in South Africa.
Mrs Tyack is best known for her Yellow Hat Tribe paintings, which show a tribe wearing distinctive yellow hats at work and play.
She said: “I think it’s very fitting that, as a lot of my inspiration for the Yellow Hat Tribe paintings comes from Africa, an African school will be benefiting from the project.”
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