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Artists and Craftsmen

ABV is not just about good photography. Drawings, paintings, sculpture, poetry, writing, video and all forms of creative material are welcome as part of our heritage.

We especially wish to encourage young and old to participate in working with us in helping to share these creative abilities.

We do want to keep our technical standards as high as possible with regards scanning and digital photography and refer you to our services page on photography to help you with this advice. If in doubt please contact us. View Photography Services

Our projects rely on this participation and we would like you to contact us with your stories and pictures or words. If you feel you have an interesting idea why not contact us by email now. Contact ABV

ABV hopes to make this a wider ranged project and is looking to other councils and organisations for their participation and support.

The Work of Carol Thomas


An artist who paints feelings and expressions

Chigwell Row nature reserve woodland pathWoodland tree

People and cultures play an important part in the paintings of Carol Thomas. Here are two quite different approaches to her work. Above you see the people and feelings that she has created and below you can see her interest in African art and symbolism.

Below: Iggy, Indie and and Beat are the titles of these works.

lambourne End view of fields and hedgerow through gateway

Carol Thomas undertakes freelance commissions for annual reports, brochures, print or paintings if you are interested please contact us.

Our Images are for Sale in our Online Shop

We have a wide range of images in our library, they are all of a professional standard and available as high resolution (28-70mb 300dpi) or as low resolution for web and multi-media (72dpi). Click to go to image shop. These images can be downloaded directly from our shop with a safe secure e-commerce facility. Sales from our artists images are partly donated to ABV in order to carry out further projects.

PDF Files of some of our Publications

Over the next few months we will be producing local project information in PDF format. See our online shop These will be available free or at a small charge to cover our administrative costs.

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