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Vanessa is a self taught artist that has worked on community projects for many years, her ambition continues to be to improve the lives of the local community through creative activities that give positive outcomes, which includes wellbeing or the look and feel of local amenities.
In 2007 a free event was created by Vanessa for residents and visitors to Goffs park to create an image on a postcard to celebrate 60 years of Crawley New Town, Crawley Borough Council used this event as a springboard to successfully launch their first ever Big Draw event. http://www.crawley.gov.uk/pw/Council_Services_and_Democracy/Council_Meetings/Committee_Documents/INT116822
Vanessa continues to work on community art projects the latest completed work include; A logo for West Green Community Forum; Elephantastic and Crawley Station Art Project.
The artist was approached by the Chair of West Green forum to design a logo for use on social media as well as use on compliment slips etc. After submitting several designs and working with the Chair a final design for West Green Community Forum was chosen and can be viewed here; https://www.facebook.com/westgreencommunity?ref=ts&fref=ts ;
Elephantastic is organised by the Horsham Rotary Club in aid of the Born Free Foundation and other local charities. The elephant that was decorated by the artist in aid of Horsham Garden Music Festival can be viewed here; http://www.elephantastic.org.uk/blue-trail/ To promote the elephant for Horsham Garden Music Festival the artist participated at the festival as well as working closely with the chair and committee members to being their ideas to life.
The art at Crawley train station was a project funded by Sussex Rail Partnership, organised by the artist working with schools, other artists and community groups. Several large boards were created by the artist, to be hung at the station. As there were a variety of styles, ability and ages of participants, (from 4 years to over 40) a crow in flight was placed on each completed collaged board to tie all of the images together making the a cohesive body of work. Once in place they created the illusion of a crow in flight when viewed from a moving train, guiding the passenger on a safe journey.
This project has been nominated for the prestigious community rail award by Sussex Rail Partnership http://www.acorp.uk.com/Community%20Rail%20Awards%20Main%202010.html
Further information about the artist can be found http://vanessacumper.wix.com/vanessacumper
In 2007 a free event was created by Vanessa for residents and visitors to Goffs park to create an image on a postcard to celebrate 60 years of Crawley New Town, Crawley Borough Council used this event as a springboard to successfully launch their first ever Big Draw event. http://www.crawley.gov.uk/pw/Council_Services_and_Democracy/Council_Meetings/Committee_Documents/INT116822
Vanessa continues to work on community art projects the latest completed work include; A logo for West Green Community Forum; Elephantastic and Crawley Station Art Project.
The artist was approached by the Chair of West Green forum to design a logo for use on social media as well as use on compliment slips etc. After submitting several designs and working with the Chair a final design for West Green Community Forum was chosen and can be viewed here; https://www.facebook.com/westgreencommunity?ref=ts&fref=ts ;
Elephantastic is organised by the Horsham Rotary Club in aid of the Born Free Foundation and other local charities. The elephant that was decorated by the artist in aid of Horsham Garden Music Festival can be viewed here; http://www.elephantastic.org.uk/blue-trail/ To promote the elephant for Horsham Garden Music Festival the artist participated at the festival as well as working closely with the chair and committee members to being their ideas to life.
The art at Crawley train station was a project funded by Sussex Rail Partnership, organised by the artist working with schools, other artists and community groups. Several large boards were created by the artist, to be hung at the station. As there were a variety of styles, ability and ages of participants, (from 4 years to over 40) a crow in flight was placed on each completed collaged board to tie all of the images together making the a cohesive body of work. Once in place they created the illusion of a crow in flight when viewed from a moving train, guiding the passenger on a safe journey.
This project has been nominated for the prestigious community rail award by Sussex Rail Partnership http://www.acorp.uk.com/Community%20Rail%20Awards%20Main%202010.html
Further information about the artist can be found http://vanessacumper.wix.com/vanessacumper
