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'This is the community garden, sometimes called Old Paradise Gardens. They've made it quite recently and put together all these hazel twigs – I really enjoyed painting them. I like the happy welcome sign, and the fact that it wasn't completely in the painting. The angle made a really good composition, like having the fence come towards you. It is kind of welcoming, like hands and fingers holding the garden.
In the distance is the church and that's the tiny bit of the tower, the Archbishop's Tower, which is a lovely orange brick. It was lit up, because it was autumn, and this tree had gone really beautiful colour. I love it, I did it only on sunny afternoons. I was very strict with my time between 1pm and 3pm when the sun was shining. And you saw the sunlight sort of reflect the golden light in these windows of the flats.'
Melissa Scott-Miller, December 2025
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