As lead artist for A Peculiar Shade of Blue Rowan is initiator of the project.

 

Her role incorporates many aspects from producer, writer, director and performer. With regard to film, the majority material has been self-shot as long duration is required on the land. She also acts as lead cinematographer.

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Go HERE for Rowan's Biog.

Nooshka Storm is a young actor and plays the role of SHA 'a future child' throughout A Peculiar Shade of Blue.

 

Nooshka has performed with Wildworks Theatre for Wolf's Child as the wolf child, and has been a long term member of both junior and senior dance companies for Hall for Cornwall.  

 

She is currently studying for a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performance.​​​

Rob Purday is a musician, writer and multidisciplinary commissioning artist working in fields ranging from traditional sculpture and painting to site specific work and installations.

 

He studied sculpture and music at Bath Academy of Art in the seventies and went on to train with indigenous mentors and traditional healers over a period of twenty years, an experience which deeply informs Rob's approach to creative work and its role and meaningfulness within the modern world.

 

Rob has worked closely with A Peculiar Shade of Blue since the start of the project to compose an original score to support all six stanzas though ITERATION #1, whilst also acting as a creative facilitator from Oct 2021 - March 2022.

Linden Gledhill is an artist who explores the physical world through different image scales and fragments of time. His education in science has led to the use of advanced microscopy and high speed equipment to create unexpected imagery revealing the physical beauty which surrounds us.

 

A passion for photography has led to numerous collaborations with other artists and designers resulting in promotional art work and effective advertisement campaigns. Corporate clients included ExxonMobil, GMC, Canon, British Telecom and musicians such as Ryan Teague and Jon Hopkins.

 

Linden’s work features in THRESHOLD (Stanza 2) for A Peculiar Shade of Blue, where we see a key sequence of a moth in flight.

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Website: www.lindengledhill.com

Willa is a storyteller, writer and facilitator. Originally from the UK, Willa now lives in Canada and has deep experience of working with indigenous mythology where she references old stories from around the world as a map to understand not only the physical landscape in which we live but also the human emotional, mental and spiritual landscape.

 

Due to her specialist knowledge, Willa has been asked to step in as creative facilitator to move deeper levels of storyline for SNOT (Stanza 3) and SALT (Stanza 5).

Henry McGrath is an actor, director, solo film maker and physical performance artist who has worked within a wide-web of performance worlds, from collaborating with experimental avant-garde theatre groups to working in mainstream TV and film.

 

He is the founder of The Solo School, and founder and co-director of Eden's Cave, a laboratory theatre group based in the Forest of Dean described as "an exciting and ground-breaking company with a holistic world vision".

 

Henry McGrath contributed as creative facilitator and cinematographer for detail during early stages of development for A Peculiar Shade of Blue from Feb - Oct 2021.

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Website:  www.henrymcgrath.co.uk