Villagers of all ages in Badgworth recently enjoyed a sunny outdoors activity making bird boxes as part of local artist's Tina Salvidge latest project.

The boxes have been decorated by participants and will be displayed at a village exhibition taking place at the Badgworth Schoolroom from tomorrow (June 25) to Sunday (June 27).

The bird box making event was made possible by materials kindly donated by Somerlap of Mark and guided by village bird enthusiast Graham Dumbleton.

It was one of the final lockdown events organised by Tina, which have involved villagers making and installing pin hole cameras, preparing a knitting bomb for the forthcoming exhibition at the schoolroom, taking part in an artist led village walk, making a community collage and being interviewed for a short film about the villagers' experiences of lockdown.

The final film, called Time and Place, made by Tina will also be presented at the village exhibition, alongside villagers' photographs, maps and artefacts about the village. A village picnic will take place on Saturday (June 26).

Tina said: "It has been very heartening to see so many people in the village engage with this arts project during lockdown, and the various Covid-safe activities that I have been able to hold both inside and outside at the schoolroom.

"It has led to a real sense of community engagement and I am looking forward to presenting my film about the village's experience of lockdown at the village exhibition, which is open to all to attend."

Tina is a fine art visual artist mainly working in video art who, after a career in law, successfully completed a Fine Art degree at UWE Bristol graduating with a First Class Degree in 2020.

Her video work Last Days was selected for the Wells Art Contemporary exhibition in 2020 (an international exhibition attracting more than 3,000 entries) and awarded the Somerset Art Works Festival 2021 prize which offers a Somerset-based artist the opportunity to conduct research and develop a plan to create a new body of work which will be showcased during the 2022.

Tina grew up in Badgworth on a local farm and is chair of the Badgworth Schoolroom Management Committee.

This project is funded by the Arts Council Lottery Fund grant and a Sedgemoor District Council Community Project grant.

Tina says her mission is to engage the community in arts activity, in particular digital art, in an interesting and innovative way.