'Photography Walks and Talks' with Paul Debois and 'Walks of Wildling' with Alys Fowler

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This ticket will be a combine that will be valid for both walk-talks with Paul and Alys. They will lead a walk around the local area looking for wildlings and doing an introduction to flower photography.

Alys Fowler is an award winning journalist, presenter and kitchen garden specialist, with both an allotment and urban back garden. She is acknowledged gardening writer writes a weekly column on gardening for The Guardian. She has written for The Royal Horticultural Society's magazine The Garden, Gardeners' World Magazine, Gardens Illustrated, Grow Your Own and National Geographic' Green. She is also the author of four books; The Thrifty Gardener, The Thrifty Forager, The Edible Garden and Abundance. She is currently working on a book about bees. She won Garden Writer of the Year 2014.On television she has appeared on ITV's Britain's Greatest Houses and Channel Four's River, as well as the BBC's Cottage Edible Gardens, Our Food and their coverage of both The Chelsea Flower Show and the Hampton Court Flower Show. She is currently one of the faces of the BBC's Great British Garden Revival.

Paul Debois , a multi-award winning photographer, has worked as a professional photographer for over 20 years and his work has appeared across a wide range of platforms and titles, including Gardener's World, Country Living, Which Consumer Group, BBC.com, Top Gear, Car Magazine as well as numerous weekend supplements, websites, books and national newspapers.With an eye for the unusual, he concentrates on floral and landscape subjects. His '43 Gardeners' Hands' project is a series of black and white portraits of some of the UK's best known gardeners, focused on just their hands. His modern-day 'Land Girls' series, features gardeners who write, blog, broadcast or promote the 'grow-your-own' philosophy, photographing them in their own gardens to give a glimpse of how they practice what they preach.He has exhibited widely in the UK and overseas, most recently at 'Contrast the City', a joint undertaking with artist Caroline Underwood, working in monochrome, taking nature and rela!
tionships with the environment as the central theme.He is regularly called on as a judge, including for the prestigious International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. For more details see www.pauldebois.com


This event will be part of "Where the Wild Things Grow" an exciting collaborative project between the renowend artists Alys Fowelr, Lynn Keddie and Paul Debois, celebrating the annual "Chelsea Fringe Festival" at Oxford House" from 17th of May until 8th of June 2014.


All the proceeds will go to Oxford House to support their work in Bethnal Green.