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…
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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!
Willow dragonflies – Shepton Mallet
A rainy day so ideal for a half term willow workshop – childen joined me at Kilver Court today making superb dragonflies to take home for their gardens.
Festival decorations – Priddy
Two days working in a Priddy’s tiny school to make decorations for the marquees at Priddy Folk Festival next week. Previously I have worked at the festival making willow fish but these two days involved all the pupils making willow flowers as well as colourful tissue paper and willow flowers.
Shepton in Bloom
I have made a solid woven 3.5 meter ‘willow flower tower’ as part of Shepton in Bloom 2010. The tower, surprisingly heavy and only just fitting on my car roof rack, provides a focal point to the bottom of Town Street as well as a sense of fun and a reminder to Somerset’s willow growing tradition.