“It brings me such joy to come and sit in a beautiful place like this and see people moving around my painting. I feel a part of the place, it’s a long-term reward.”

“We are often taught poetry as if we must unlock its meaning, when in fact we should experience it, let it wash over us and whatever it means to us is its meaning. Once I have written a poem it belongs to the reader. A good poem gives the reader space to own the poem, so you can put something of yourself into the understanding of it and take something away.”

From far away, the sight of the beautiful world makes her realise that home is everything she wants. “I’ve glimpsed heaven, and it’s here,” she says, back down to earth again on Rusthall Common.

Ben Marchant’s paintings juxtapose elements of the expected with the unexpected to create something new. “In one painting I thought I would take an image like the Mona Lisa and combine it with another face,” he says. “Some of my inspiration also comes from what if? questions. What if the Titanic had arrived in New York? What if Diana hadn’t died?”

The idea was to create a community where artists, makers and entrepreneurs can rent a table, workshop, studio or floor space on a rolling monthly basis in an environment with a creative and collaborative energy to it.

Just as the audience will be on a journey through the rocks when they see the play, it will be about other journeys people are on.

“The story came from the community, and so it is not the play I would have written myself. Trying to put a play together from the imaginations of fifty different heads was challenging but also extraordinary and wonderful.”