I am a visual artist who specializes in large scale sculpture and installation work. I have been working in community and participatory arts for the past three years. After finishing my degree in fine art in Birmingham I started out teaching art to adults with learning disabilities, since then I have worked in various schools, early years settings and community center's across the country. Although predominantly working within visual arts I also include elements of performance and movement based activities, supporting children's ideas through story telling, performance and play. My main focus of interest is working within early years education embarking on child-led research projects, creating large scale sculptures and building interactive environments around children's threads of thinking, stories and schematic behavior. I have facilitated various creative consultation projects, involving children in the design and shaping of their own projects, I have also conducted a number of training sessions with teachers and early years educators enabling them to understand children's creativity as well as providing them with practical, hands-on ideas of how to facilitate children's creative expression. For further details please email elliereynish@hotmail.com or call on 07969020706