a record year for rainfall

As part of their research for the KWoA Watermark project, KWoA artists Nicki Smith and Pam Williamson took part in the US based Arthouse Co-op Sketchbook project 2011. Both artists submitted sketchbooks featuring their personal responses to when the Cumbrian Floods of November 2009 hit their villages, Burneside and Ambleside.

The 'A Record Year for Rainfall' sketchbooks toured the US, visiting a range of exhibition locations including Washington, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. They are now at the Brooklyn Art Library in New York and have been digitized so that they can be viewed online. Nicki's online sketchbook was used as reference when she worked with the Burneside community in Autumn 2011 as part of the KWoA 'Watermark' project.         http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/2980