Launch Event - Friday 24th November 2023  - 6pm – 8pm

Saturday 25th November 2023 - 10.30am – 7pm (3.30 – 5.00pm ‘Soundfields’ – live presentation of readings and music)

Sunday 26th November 2023 - 10.30am – 4pm (2.00 – 3.30pm ‘Mandolirium’ – live music by Rod Craig and John Summerscales)

Worton Hall, Worton Park nr Cassington, OX29 4SU

https://foreverfields.co.uk/

Forever Fields is one of the largest art exhibitions in the area for many years, taking place this coming weekend, and featuring 150 works of painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, installations, words and music.

It’s the overwhelming response by local people who were invited to express their feelings about the prospect of losing 3,400 acres of our countryside to Botley West Solar Farm. Over 90 artists, both professional and amateur, have made their contributions.

Forever Fields is also creating a Digital Archive from the artworks, so that if this power station is built, when the developer has to restore the fields after 40 years, there is a unique and accurate record of what was here.

Willow Coppice are exhibiting a large scale sculpture Connected.

Created by Andy Goodwin and supported by Ross Macken, Laszlo Schingloff, Charlotte Holmes and Paul Turner Connected explores the embrace and the stranglehold between humans and nature.

We are also exhibiting a video installation Pause : Summer : 41 Seconds.

Filmed by Charlotte Holmes between 2018 and 2023 this immersive installation invites the viewer to be a part of nature, and asks how long can a moment hold our attention? Is 41 seconds longer than humanly possible to be absorbed? Nature carries on all around us even if we're not looking.