Artists, musicians, dancers and many others have put their creative talents to good use during the lockdown period.

The Isle of Man Arts Council launched its ’Home Is Where The Art Is’ project at the start of May, designed to ’celebrate creation in isolation.

It is aimed at giving a platform to Manx creatives who are either continuing to work on artistic, performance or musical projects at home, or using the time to try experimenting with different styles, techniques or methods.

The understanding is that the projects must be either original, inspirational, educational or interactive, or a combination of all four.

The project encourages people to upload a video of themselves performing or putting their work on display to the Isle of Man Arts Council website, who pay £100 for each video accepted and featured.

One of the first projects entered was professional musician Jason Evans, who filmed and recorded himself playing a stunning, orchestrated version of Ellan Vannin, using up to 16 different tracks.

Dance student Molly Bowman, who studies at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, uploaded a video of her practising routines in her bedroom while taking her classes online.

Pippa Lovell, a professional chef and wild food forager, combined her love of gardening and poetry to put together a video of reciting a self-written poem whilst tending her plants.

Writing on the ’Home is Where the Art is’ web site, Pippa wrote: ’It is a poem about growth, growth during a time of pause.

’For the listener this is subjective. It is a poem of comfort in keeping on keeping on.

’I have been videoing my day-to-day in the garden to accommodate the words.’

Graphic artist Juan Moore uploaded a speeded-up video of him drawing ’Battered Cod’, one of his highly-recognisable creations, and six-year-old Rosie Everson was filmed by her mother displaying some of her own creations, largely featuring colourful rainbows to hang in the window.

Museum technician Kevin Kinnin produced a video talking about how he has thought of new techniques to create model trees to go along with small-scale installations, while ceramicist Felicity Wood filmed herself creating a range of clay rainbows, using her own pottery kiln, which she is selling on the website www.quirky.im to raise money for the Friends of Noble’s Hospital.

’I received a message out of nowhere asking if I would be willing to produce some ceramics to raise money for Friends of Noble’s Hospital,’ wrote Felicity.

’Both of my sister-in-laws work for the NHS and, although technically I am a key worker as a primary teacher, it is not even slightly on the same level as their world right now and so this felt like a great way to help a bit more.

’I started to doodle rainbows to make ceramic tiles, my own children have painted a massive window hanging from the front window and so has every child in our road.

’I try to use the Manx language whenever I can and this project needed a Manx word; Cooidjagh, all together.’

More videos can be seen at www.iomarts.com