Commissioned by Sustrans and Stirling Council, this screen acts as a gateway piece in to the village of Cowie, just outside Stirling. Intensive workshops were held with the two primary schools and the nursery to develop ideas which were based on Old and New. Cowie is an ex mining village but there was little in the way of recognition of that fact so this played a major part in the imagery. The children were also involved in the making. Both classes which had been the most involved all got a chance to try forging and contributed sticks for the birds nests. The primary and nursery children also made all the small round tiles taking their inspiration from the phrase “from out of the darkness they brought forth light”, which were set in to a mosaic banner.