Year 5 are currently studying South America, with a focus on the Amazon. Abel Rodríguez is an elder from the Nonuya ethnic group, native to the Cahuinarí river in the Colombian Amazon. Rodríguez’s work is grounded in his ancestral knowledge of the indigenous plants of the region, which was passed to him by his uncle. He has an exhibition at the Baltic on Gateshead quayside where you can go and see his work. We used his art as inspiration to create these pop up rainforests. We tried hard to create texture in our rainforests using magazines and hatching using oil pastels on different types of paper before cutting out leaf and tree shapes.
