Elderly in the picture

The 10 residents of Madley Park home in Witney were snapped by children at the town's Blake Primary School as part of a project by Kids@art, the educational arm of Oxfordshire Artweeks.

Under the supervision of professional artist Rose Gorman, from Holton, near Oxford, the children were taught how to digitally enhance and modify the photos - with some interesting results.

Frances Morgan, activity co-ordinator at the home, said: "The children also talked to the residents to find out about their lives.

"One of our residents used to be in the Navy, so to show that in the picture, an image of a ship was transposed.

"There are some fascinating results. It's such a marvellous exhibition."

It was on show at Wolfson College, in Linton Road, from Sunday to Friday, and also included work by pupils at Beckley Primary School and Mabel Prichard School in Oxford.

Ms Gorman, who specialises in video and photography, worked with the children and Madley Park residents through Art4age, another offshoot of Artweeks which visits elderly people's homes.

Wendy Harwood, a volunteer helper at The Blake School, has kept files of the children's pictures on her computer and there are a sample of them on this page.

She said: "It was a brilliant project. The children spent the first couple of days getting to know and chat to the residents.

"They used the school's digital cameras to take pictures and then, with Rose, were shown how to use specialist software to play with the images, including in them things that were important in the people's lives.

"The knock-on effect was the children really interacted with the older people and forged links. Some of them are now coming to our carol concert."

Among the residents featured was Doug Carter, 88. The children gave him a background ship - he was in the Merchant Navy for his working life. His love of boats started when his father kept a boatyard at Port Meadow, Oxford. He is also a lifelong Arsenal fan.