A Floa7 Original Project
EAST LONDON WATERWORKS PARK:
THE FOUR SEASON
A volunteer collaboration celebrating the beauty, change, and community spirit of East London's most remarkable green space — told through illustration, animation, and the turning of the year.
Community Collaboration · Illustration & Animation
About the Project
WHERE ART MEETS NATURE
East London Waterworks Park is one of the most exciting community-owned green space projects in the capital — a former industrial reservoir site on the edge of the Lea Valley, being transformed by local people into a vibrant park for the community.
As part of a volunteer collaboration with ELWP, this project captures the park's evolving landscape across all four seasons — not just as it is, but as it feels. The work blends photography, digital illustration, and sound to evoke the texture and mood of each part of the year.
From the first tentative green of spring to the deep silence of winter, each piece in "The Four Seasons" series is a creative interpretation of how nature transforms — and how a community transforms alongside it.
The project celebrates both the park's unique ecosystem and the local effort that has driven its evolution from industrial relic to living, breathing public space.
"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
The Four Chapters
Spring
New growth, optimism, and the park beginning to breathe again after winter. The illustrations capture the tentative return of colour and life.
Summer
Long light, community gatherings, and the full expression of the park's ecosystem. Warmth rendered in layered digital colour and texture.
Autumn
Decay as beauty. The Autumn pieces explore the amber and copper transformation of the landscape — and the melancholy magic of change.
Winter
Stillness, breath, and the quiet resilience of a space waiting to bloom again. Frost-blue tones and spare, meditative compositions.
Gallery
THE WORK
Illustrations, digital art, and animated shorts — each piece a different perspective on the park and the passing of the seasons.