Fen Raft Spider Art Project

This summer Buglife are partners on an exciting project to bring together an artist and one of the UK’s most spectacular invertebrates – the Fen raft spider.

Artist Sheila Tilmouth will be spending the summer up to her waist (and sometimes her armpits!) in pools of water studying, photographing and sketching the spiders at the Suffolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Redgrave and Lopham Fen.

Sheila Tilmouth photographing Fen raft spiders © Sheila Tilmouth

The resulting artworks will be exhibited at the reserve visitor centre in the autumn (weekends 24-25 Oct & 31 Oct- 1 Nov 10-4pm), and will be featured in the next edition of Buglife members' newsletter Action Update.

This project is funded by the Arts Council, and supported by Suffolk Wildlife Trust, the British Arachnological Society and Buglife. For more information about this project please click here to visit Sheila’s website. To find out about the Fen raft spider click here.

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