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Best-selling
novelist Alan Gibbons worked with Year 8 pupils
from Brentford School for Girls, and from Hounslow
Manor School.
Here, he explains why he chose the painting:
"I selected Giordano’s Perseus turning
Phineas and his Followers to Stone. It was an obvious
choice as I had written about the incident in my
novel Shadow of the Minotaur, the first book in
the Legendeer trilogy and a Blue Peter Book Award
winner."
"I took the students
to the painting, a huge, dramatic image. Various
pupils created a freeze-frame tableau, re-enacting
the event in the painting. We discussed the various
elements of colour and composition that gave the
painting its sense of drama."
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