Get involved with Fordinbridge Park rainbow exhibition
Bring your own painted stones to add to the rainbow
It's all rainbows and smiles this week in Fordinbridge Park as we're being invited to take part in a community art project.
May Summers-Perkins has teamed up with Fordingbridge Town Council and Riverside Kiosk to create a rainbow installation.
They want locals of all ages to get involved by bringing their own painted stones to add to the rainbow.
As well as being the Riverside Kiosk Manager, May is an artist.
She thought it would be great to bring some joy during this lockdown:
"Within my illustrations I promote mental health and positivity and the rainbow is a great way to spread joy uniting the community together when we can't be together.
"Everyone is welcome to come down to Fordingbridge park, bring your own painted stones to add to the rainbow, they can have messages to loved ones or groovy designs on them.
"It's so lovely to have the wonderful display in the park with the weather being so miserable at the moment, it's nice that people are out for their daily exercise coming to look at the rainbow."
While working in the kiosk May said: it's lovely to see people smiling at the rainbow and reading the messages out loud to each other:
"It's nice to see the younger children learning the colours and using it as a tool for learning in their education."
May hopes the rainbow can become a permanent exhibition in the park:
"The project doesn't have a time sale, it will be there for as long as people keep adding to it.
"The Fordingbridge Park is very busy in the summer months and people come from far and wide.
"I hope they can really enjoy it when all the restrictions are lifted."