Lisa Horner Writer & Artist

I have just updated the blog on my author website and have realised that I keep choosing the same dress when I'm metaphorically wearing my author hat  https://lisajanehorner.wixsite.com/lisahornerauthor/blog .  Note to self, wear a different dress next time! It was the Radion launch today, particularly for the lenticular screen, very recently the audio tour had been added which you access by scanning a QR code.  More info can be found at https://radionproject.com/ .   The Mayor was there, plus a few of us who had chosen buildings on one side of the lenticular screen and talked about those buildings on the audio tour .  Also, the schools were visiting, many schools in the area had done projects to do with nature in the area and had made leaf rubbings.  You can find out about that particular part of the project here .  The lenticular screen, the Heritage side The children's Nature side of the lenticular screen Information and QR codes. I'm with Ken Porter, Chairman of Basild

Three new designs on my Redbubble page and more to come! Have a look if you care to: - Beach Café Greylag Goose Black-headed Gull Also, if you'd like to support me and follow/like my art page please pay me a visit  https://www.facebook.com/seashellsandcobblestoneart/  

If you have ventured down the left-hand side of the Empire Cinema in East Square, Basildon you may have seen the lenticular screen.  If you viewed the screen from one side you would have seen a nature panorama and from the other side you may have noticed images of buildings, monuments and public art relating to Basildon's heritage. On the website it eloquently explains:- "Radion is a collaborative project that explores Basildon's past and present with a focus on nature and heritage within the borough.  Basildon Borough History, Basildon Borough Heritage, its volunteers and local people have been suggesting pieces of built heritage to be celebrated and remembered within the Borough.  These images have been used to create a panorama depicting an alternative skyline of Basildon from a chronological perspective. Students from ten local primary schools including Ryedene, Lee Chapel, Millhouse, Fairhouse, Pioneer Janet Duke, Noak Bridge, Great Berry, Northlands and Ghyllgrove Sc

It came to my notice that Frances Clamp passed recently.  She was a former teacher and Head of Year in a comprehensive school, and an author and an historian and I couldn't put it better than Sylvia Kent has on her blog .  She produced at least fourteen books and was former President of the Brentwood Writers' Circle and a member of the Society of Women Writer's and Journalists. I first met Frances when I became a member of the Basildon Heritage Project Team, I think this was 2006 or 2007. I was a researcher, and after the completion of the Basildon Heritage Trail Frances had her book Basildon, Our Heritage published in 2008.  I have my signed copy from Frances at home.  Frances and Vin and others visited schools as part of the project and brought children out to look a t parts of Ba sildon, discovering it's history.  The children also had the chance to take photographs. Frances was a knowledgeable, kind and professional woman.  So kind that she voluntarily ran Story C