The joy of colour
Cherrie has collaborated with fine art photographer, Richard Nicholls, on this exciting public realm project in the heart of Worcester. The pair were commissioned to create bespoke designs for vacant shop windows in one of the city's most striking buildings, the former Hop Market Hotel on Foregate Street.

Freezing point
At freezing point the night hands over to the day
And the sun peers through a haze
Hunting the stars scattered in the frosted grass.
Focus the scope of your eyes on the patch of adonis blue,
Watch it widen as each wing flap pushes back the curtains further
Until the lens on the day, new polished, shows every detail,
And each frame of the stop motion world is ready to be explored.
Walk the waves of the fields where mud, hard frozen, is friendly to the boot,
By the lanes where each ivy leaf is framed
And the rainbow coalesces in the white that brings to life
the achromatic winter hedges.
Breathe the sharp air and purge your lungs
As time expands to match the widening panorama.
Head to where the cedars punctuate the horizon
Past where the ducks pad the lake top, bewildered.
This is a world of inversion where it’s white in the shadows
And the cold brings warmth to the adventure seeker.
So wander free if you want your world refreshed.
For a long day’s moment drown out
The susurration of pressing time.
Go feel the melody in a footstep’s crunch,
A kestrel’s cry.
Beyond the threshold
Dreams are glinting at each turn.
This day is for you.
© Jeremy Harwood