Our Sizzling Summer

Well its certainly been a hot July and the temperatures have been high in the Wood Workshop here at Chelsea as the several of the MA students feverishly build their work. There are not many weeks to go now until the work has to be completed so its all go. Below are a few images taken form the past 2 weeks.

Chrissie puts the finishing touches to her newly made legs.

Fine Art student Alice gets to grips with her Fret Sawed structure. 

Some model making action in Small Works 

Alex fixes the wings for his By-plane 

Fang Li seems very pleased with his model for his MA ISD  show coming up.

Some very lovely details. Now we just need to build the plinth. ( see below ) 

A display box ready to house 16 framed textile pieces 

Almost ready for it's maiden flight! 

Now that is one rather bespoke plinth for Fang Li's model. 

Cheryl getting ready for some sanding action on her structure. 

Van from MA ISD builds the walls that will create a structure within the Morgue here at the college 

Tanja constructs her frames behind a rather deconstructed chair.

We cycled to Paris!

So after 500 km of cycling in temperatures that hovered around 33 degrees and reached 37, Stef and Phil rolled into Paris with many more new friends, stopping all traffic as their group cycled around the Arc de Triomphe, down the Champs Elysees, along the river Siene and on to finish at the Eiffel Tower ( see images below ). At times it was tough but the sense of camaraderie amongst them all seemed to make the hours in the saddle an absolute joy.

They have also have raised an incredible amount of money for the charity Action Medical Research and they wish to thank all of you that have donated. There is plenty of time for those the haven't and they guess several people were waiting to see if they actually made it! Below are some images taken from their journey.

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Fresh faced for the registration and onto the start at City Hall.

Phil was never far from Stef's back wheel. Also known in cycling terms as drafting !

92 miles of riding later they had reached Dover docks. 5 more to go in Calais before sleep.

Where there's a hill, there's a Phil 

and where's there's a Patisserie you will generally find Stef! 

Yes it was hot out there and yes it was discovered Phil tans rather easily! 

Wonderful French roads.

The last leg of the journey. Slowest bit by far but worth it. 

This could be a smile or a grimace. Hard to tell with Stef sometimes but going to go with smile on this occasion. 

Its the classic bike lift shot but what the heck. Well done to the boys for making it.