Matthew Leece
Artist and designer creating playful, nature-inspired experiences that connect people, spark curiosity, and foster community.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

What if home isn’t just where you live…but where you belong?
‘The Museum of Homes’ Workshop led by Forest of Imagination artists @matthewleece and @morgane_shaban unfurled near Stroud this week - a mini Forest of Imagination held to celebrate @hawkswoodcentre Future Thinking’s Mayday Festival - exploring the relationship between people and the natural world.
They were making tiny homes for the creatures of Hawkwood’s land 🪹
Looking. Listening. Imagining. Honouring the lives we share this planet with 🌎
A small forest, before the big one 🌱
Forest of Imagination opens at Entry Hill, Bath on 13 June. Ten days. Nine installations. All of it free.

Inside a chrysalis, the caterpillar doesn’t just grow wings.
It dissolves. Almost completely…into what scientists call Imaginal Soup.
Within that soup, clusters of imaginal cells survive. They carry the blueprint of what’s coming. At first the body attacks them.
But they keep multiplying — until the butterfly begins.
This June, artist Matthew Leece @matthewleece responds to this extraordinary process in an installation atEntry Hill.
13 June – 21 June. Entry Hill, Bath. Free.
📸 by @wwarby

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

BLAB 2019 - Created for @forestofimagination 2019 at the @holburnemuseumbath tucked away in the museum gardens. Entering through a secret path, visitors were invited to explore the world of bees through playful experiments, sensory encounters and immersive tools.
Blending art, science and installation, the work used a mix of digital and analogue technologies — from VR and UV vision to mirrors and lenses — to shift human perception and imagine how bees experience their environment. A winding journey through sound, scent and surprise led to hidden clearings, including a crawl-in geodesic dome inspired by the inside of a beehive.
A space for curiosity, exploration and ecological wonder.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.

2018 - The Drawing MachinesCreated for @forestofimagination 2018, this participatory artwork transformed Kingsmead Square into a playful, large-scale drawing space. Three custom-built machines represented different forest habitats—the forest floor, understory and canopy—each inviting a distinct way of making marks inspired by the movements of animals. Using charcoal in fragments, blocks and dust, participants created sweeping, splattered and creeping marks through bodily movement. Visually influenced by Piet Mondrian’s abstracted trees, the machines removed the fear of the blank page and made bold drawing accessible to all ages and abilities, turning public space into a shared act of exploration and play.
As part of Forest of Imagination’s collaboration with Wokingham Council, we (@le__var__studio and @matthewleece) planned, designed and delivered many many workshops in many many primary schools across the borough! Each session began with the question “What is the Forest of Imagination?”, letting the children’s ideas lead the way.
This video captures one of those journeys with a group of Year 2 students over 5 sessions. Their theme became forest creatures, so we explored how these beings might see the world… using UV pens, vision goggles, and guided meditations to bring their imagined landscapes to life.
They built costumes, props, and layered sets for a shadow puppet performance, using the OHP to explore colour, shape, and atmosphere. Every 30-second story was devised, choreographed, and performed by the children themselves.
In our final workshop, we completed the film with a live soundtrack made from sticks, stones, and crazy voices (inspired by the field recordings and music of the one and only @cosmosheldrake)- make sure to turn the volume up to listen!
Created during Feb, March and May 2025
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