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Deer in the garden – Winchester
Don’t worry about the deer in the garden!
Willow dragon – Bishops Palace
Giant willow dragon at Bishop’s Palace in Wells…
Large willow teacher -Somerset
Today I worked with a group of teachers for their inset day. They decided to make a willow person however over the course of the day this person became not only larger than life but also the school’s head teacher. I think the children are in for a surprise on Wednesday! it will be their turn in a few…
Willow dragonflies – Shepton Mallet
Weaving willow dragonflies at The Art Tree gallery in Shepton Mallet
Willow tunnel – Southampon
A living willow tunnel where diagonal weaving provides a lot of inbuilt strength
Garden Gurus – Glastonbury FM
What a fun ‘Garden Gurus’ team at Glastonbury FM! Tess came out to interview me on site planting trees in my new cider orchard, it was a very wild and windy day and one friend aptly describing it as ‘blowing a hooley’. Despite the hooley Tess managed to catch most of what I had to say about the subsoiling, the short…
Winter solstice lanterns – Shepton Mallet
During December I was involved in the organising of a lantern parade, this is the first year of the event in Shepton Mallet and it has been a huge success. We ran workshops in 3 local schools plus withthe scouts and three Saturday workshops in an empty shop in the centre of Shepton. Using willow and…
Lantern making workshops – Shepton Mallet
Today I worked in a local school with year 6 pupils making paper lanterns. This is one of 7 workshops which will be taking place as part of Shepton Paper Lights Festival on 21st December (www.sheptonpaperlights.org.uk)
Willow Great Crested Newt – Basingstoke
It was a glorious day working in a conservation meadow with children and their parents. The Making (Basingstoke) organised these free workshops at The Vyne (Basingstoke) and I was one of two artists working on the estate that day. As the day progressed so did the willow newt!