On Saturday 25 March 2023, 10am to 1pm, at Brading #Roman villa, Isle of Wight, Prof David Tomalin will be signing his excellent new book about Roman Wight: 'Roman Vectis', 440pp, hb, full colour, romanvectis.com

Mosaic of Aratus, the astronomer, at Brading Roman villa

Here are images taken looking out towards Sandown Bay from behind the villa. One taken before the reclamation of land in the late Victorian period, one taken yesterday after the heavy rain & a CGI image of the villa 1800 years ago.
#Flood #nature #Biosphere #IsleofWight #roman

So... any chance that this is actually a mid-4th Century #Halloween selfie....
Happy Halloween everyone!

#MosaicMonday #Roman #Museum #TrickorTreat

Inspiring - and contrasting - work from Newport Youth Panel and Sandown & Lake Youth Forum this half term, #iwbiosphere #coproduction with Bruce Webb and @laurahathaway1 as part of Artswork funded #SupportingYoungMinds Creative Island Community Resilience Project - Bay area, IOW

Exciting for Sandown & Lake Youth Forum to have first day of place-changing filming for Artswork #SupportingYoungMinds with Bruce Webb supported by Community Action IW #youthvoice #iwbiosphere Creative Island

Catastrophic flooding in Dec 1993 left many of our mosaics covered in thick silt deposits. A dedicated #Conservation team arrived in Jan 1994 & began the delicate cleaning process. Here are shots of our medusa mosaic before & after the clean #MosaicMonday #museum #Roman

Projects, people, places & wildlife.

#artecology #ecoengineering #civilengineering #people #places #projects
#isleofwight #iwbiosphere

Chris Slann outgoing IWCEP Chair celebrates the partnership’s Artswork Bridge #ACEsupported achievements since 2015 & the fantastic #CreativeBiosphere work with @Wight_AONB that’s connecting children & schools, creatives & arts orgs to #IsleofWight #UNESCO #Biosphere

Brading Landscape Discovery walk left from the villa yesterday morning as part of the Autumn Isle of Wight Walking Festival and they had a great time discovering the diverse nature, heritage and archaeology of Brading.
#heritage #walk #aonb #Archaeology #Roman #IsleofWight

Come and listen to our founder Daniel Roberts as he talks about his love of inventing. He’ll be in the Hullabaloo Talk Tent at 11am on Saturday this weekend.
#isleofwight #iwbiosphere

Here it is! Every contributor and all the timings for every happening. Hullabaloo 2022. 15th, 16th October. SEE YOU THERE!
hullabalooiw.com

Brading Roman Villa was excavated during 1880-81. Photos taken at the time show the mosaics as they were being unearthed. Here is our Medusa with some of her face missing next to an image of how she now looks after being restored. #MosaicMonday #Roman #Archaeology #photo #museum

As part of the Creative Biosphere Project students from The Bay CE School commissioned BioTotems to sit within our landscape and attract native solitary bees. Here is a Bee's eye view of one flying home. Thanks to Artecology for the film.🐝
#UNESCO #aonb #bees Arts Council England

Its drizzling...its windy... our wind mosaics are clearly pushing you along to come and visit....
They also think it would be an excellent idea to stay and visit the café as well. Eat cake, drink coffee, stay dry.
#thingstodo #placestoeat #museum #mosaic #cafè #RainyDay #Roman

A solitary bee’s eye-view of a BioTotem on aerial approach!! 🐝
#NatureBasedSolutions #biodiversitynetgain #biodiversitynotgain #wildlife #bee #nativebee

The cockerel headed figure in one of our mosaics has inspired many people to replicate it either as a mosaic or as a drawing. Here are some of our favourites next to the original. #MosaicMonday #Roman #museum #IsleofWight

📦 📦 3 cardboard commission opportunities for £300 each.
- It has to be a large scale vehicle (Wacky Racer).
- You or someone you have organised has to operate it in the race at Hullabaloo on Sunday 16th October, 2pm. Entries to [email protected] by 5pm on 4th October.

Following the cancellation of this years event, unfortunately, we have been unable to secure a new date.

However, we will be back at Brading Roman Villa on Saturday September 16th 2023, with all the activities and attractions with £1 entry for Islanders.

Save the Date 📅

Pathways, views, vines, cobnuts & wildlife. This time of year is beautiful at Brading villa & really worth taking a walk around. Immerse your self in the ancient landscape once lived on by Iron Age farmers & the Romans
#nature #aonb #museum #Roman #environment #archaeology

Its officially Autumn.
We have 3 seasons depicted in our mosaics, sadly we are missing Autumn. So we will show you the 3 we have got and we can all imagine how great Autumn would have been.....
#mosaicmonday #roman #museum #placestovisit #Autumn