Joanna Trollope OBE is a British Author and Patron of The Mulberry Bush School. She grew up in the Cotswolds and this early life experience influenced much of her work. Whilst being very open about the fact that she was not someone who loved her time at school, she went on to win a scholarship […]
The Arborealists Artist group was formed in 2013, by curator and artist Tim Craven after the popularity and critical success of his exhibition: Under the Green Wood : Picturing the British. He co-curated the show with Steve Marshall and Professor Anne Anderson at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire. Since then the group has […]
There’s an element of risk all around us, present in everything we do. From the moment we wake up, whether we’re off to the shops or off to climb a tree, risk is a part of our everyday life. And despite our fears being increasingly hyped up in the mainstream press, life in modern times […]
Another great little film from our very own master builder and budding filmmaker Jack, who has put together another flyover film. This time, it’s of the completed project for the Mulberry Bush School. The build consisted of five separate and individual play areas with one for each of the ‘houses’. There’s one more post to […]
Treehouse accommodation is big business. Brian Chesky, the CEO of AirBnB, which takes care of the marketing of over 1,000 treehouses and thousands of conventional properties across the world has stated that treehouses offer the greatest return of any of the properties on their books. In a recent interview with the Danny in the Valley […]
In a recent blog post we talked about going on site at the Mulberry Bush School here. Well work has continued apace and two of the gardens are now complete. The School is set in the heart of rural Oxfordshire and works on long-term programmes with children who have been through specific traumas to help them […]
We’ve just completed a lovely little project at Audley End Miniature Railway in Saffron Walden, Essex. If you’ve not heard of it, it’s a brilliant miniature railway attraction, that was originally designed by Lord Braybrooke, to ride around his Capability Brown designed gardens. When his daughter, Amanda Murray took over the running of the railway […]
Our very own master builder and budding film maker, Jack has put together a little film of a flyover of the adventure play extension at Fort Douglas, Dalkeith Country Park. From the height we can fly the drone at, you can see the overall view across the estate and get a perfect image of the […]
The team arrived on site today for the start of a build at the Mulberry Bush School in the peaceful tranquility of the Oxfordshire countryside. The school is almost unique in what it does in that it takes children of primary school age who arrive from environments of family breakdown, high anxiety and trauma. Their […]
When we created the Lost Castle of Lowther, we thought it might be a cool idea to film the whole process. Here it is speeded up so you can watch us work, see the foliage grow back around us and hear the birds arriving in Spring. If you’d just like to look at the […]
