Tea and Sympathy

The Rectory is one of the biggest houses in Tyneham and has some beautiful features that can still be seen.

There are many rooms and corridors and after looking at the property I thought about the rectory and what it once stood for in the village, so the idea came to make tea cups to sit on a shelf, which is now used to board out the windows.  I have experimented in a number of different ways to make them including with dried leaves but I settled on the use of photographs overlaid with text from a war time story relating to tea.

The shelf in The Rectory the cups will sit on

Newspaper from 1939 used to make the decorative shelf trim