Introducing Donna Tayler, the artist behind Fiesta’s Wonderland garden!

The post below calls for the people of York to add to our every expanding garden of delights. It’s seems that a festival for the people should have them involved right from the start. Our fantastical Wonderland garden (which will be at St Sampson’s Square on the day) certainly embraces this mantra.

Fun, colorful, wacky and creative is the name of the day and everyone is invited to take part and help create York’s temporary inside garden.

The creative vision behind it all is the wonderful Donna Tayler and she certainly seems excited and inspired about what can be created. So when asked some questions about herself and project here’s exactly what she had to say!

“Hi – I’m the artist working on Fiesta this year – it’s proving to be
a great project to work on as there are at least 11 different
community groups involved so far – people of all ages too…

Dragonflies, flowers, birds, and bees are all in the process of being
created, so our “Wonderland” is certainly going to be a real
menagerie of creatures of all shapes and sizes – and it’s definitely
going to be a riot of colour……

I kind of have a rough idea of how the final thing will look, but
with so many people involved it’s quite difficult to envisage exactly
how it will look until everything finally comes together on Saturday
5th June…….you will just have to come on down and check it out
for yourselves then. There will also be an opportunity on that day
for you to make something and add it to the garden!”

Clearly Wonderland’s going to be something amazing at Fiesta, and all of us here can’t wait to see how it will all turn out!

As a reminder, and something to write on the calendars and in your diaries, here are the dates where you can get involved, and make your own mark:

Saturday 22 May      1 – 4pm at St Luke’s Church Hall, Shipton Street
Tuesday 25 May      6 – 9pm at Burtonstone Community Centre
Tuesday 1 June      10am – 1pm at Space 109, Walmgate

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