Spend a fun morning learning the art of working with wire, to create your very own wire leaves garland, inspired by the falling autumn leaves with their wonderful variety of shapes and patterns.
Using pliers, snips and a variety of wires, you will go home with a seasonal home decoration to hang up every autumn, or even leave it hanging up all year round!
With local artist Becky Crawford, at the Ermington Store Hub on Thursday 23rd October 2025, 10 – 12. Click HERE to book
I’m teaming up again with Peter Lanyon in his barn workshop nestled between Battisborough Cross and Noss Mayo, to run a couple of childrens lampmaking workshops. This would make a brilliant Christmas present for a creative child who loves hands-on making. As you can see, the workshop we ran over the summer holidays produced some really creative lampshade designs, including one featuring woodworking tools, and one with cats chasing a mouse! If you’d like to find out more, please click on THIS LINK… Please note, for insurance purposes, children must be aged 8 or above.
It’s that time of year again when artists and makers across the whole of Devon open up their houses and studios and invite the public in to show off their incredible talent. Devon Open Studios is now up and running and I’m excited to let you know that I’m taking part at Flameworks in Plymouth (7 Richmond Walk, Plymouth, PL1 4LL)
In total there are 14 of us taking part at this waterside venue, so there is plenty to feast your eyes on. Our opening times are Saturdays and Sundays, 10 – 4. Here is a link to my Instagram reel, where you can see a taster of some of what’s on offer… CLICK HERE … For the first time you can see some of the watercolour painting I’ve been doing out on clifftops in Devon, Ireland and the Isle of Harris.. some close ups are pictured above. I’m also showing my silver jewellery, recycled plastic jewellery, wirework, cards and more. I’ll be there myself on Sunday 14th and Sunday 21st September.
Join me at Make South West in Bovey Tracey on Thursday 28 August to create your own forever flowers.
You will use tissue paper, wire, pliers and snips to make a fabulous bunch of flowers which you can leave plain or decorate with pen. All materials will be provided.
There are two workshop timeslots to choose from:
10.30am – 12.00pm
2.00pm – 3.30pm
This workshop is for children aged 7+
We ask that all participating children are accompanied by a parent, carer or guardian throughout the workshop duration.
Please purchase tickets for participating children only. Accompanying adults do not need to purchase a ticket.
Perfect for children who don’t enjoy the huge noisy village hall parties and want something a bit different. They can make something to treasure. Activities can be discussed and tailored to suit needs.
Not just for children though, adults also enjoy a bit of creative fun and love to do something completely different from their daily life… Also great for staff ‘bonding’ days.
Fun Arty games, Clay, Printing, Collage and much, much more available.
For prices and to discuss ideas, just get in touch with me either via my contact form, or email becky@myspacefruit.com
This lovely project was run over 2 weeks. The simple brief was to make a clay animal. As you can see below, everybody came up with something unique and just wonderful. The white clay was decorated with slip that I made from some terracotta and chocolate black clays; simple and effective.
This was a fun game the children played which got quite wild!
First of all we looked at some images of abstract art and talked about them and how you could often see just what you wanted to see in them. Then I gave them all a flat blank card dice to decorate each side of with something different; such as their favourite colour, words, spots, zig zags, stars, weather, animals, eyes, wiggly lines….. etc…
After they’d turned their flat dice into 3D dice, they set to going wild with a variety of art materials – inks, paints, oil and chalk pastels, pencils, wax crayons, water sprayer… I also set a timer for them to spend 3 minutes on each dice roll. So the idea was that they rolled the dice, then got going on their paper for 3 minutes with whatever the dice rolled onto, with whatever art materials they fancied. The results were quite wonderful.
This is a game that my daughter also really loves playing at home; we have a huge piece of cardboard that we roll out to cover the floor to protect it from all the splatters that follow!!!
Pssssst by the way… this isn’t just for the kids! I’ve used this game to create some pictures of my own which I quite like!
For this project, we initially looked at the amazing wierd and wonderful sculptures by Chiaozza: https://www.eternitystew.com/
I also took in a selection of my own cacti and succulents for the kids to draw, to get their imaginations rolling and give inspiration for more shapes and forms. They then designed what they wanted to create in papier mache and cardboard, and set to with the papier mache! In total this turned into a 3 week project, as some of the designs were wonderfully ambitious – they really pushed themselves which was great to see!
The forms were constructed over wooden skewers which were then stuck into holes in wooden blocks.
You can see the results, though the photographs really don’t do them justice!
Kids art club workshops South Devon holidays after school
It’s always great fun doing a craft show at my husband Peter Lanyon’s workshop. This year is going to be no exception, it’s going to be great seeing old friends and making new ones. Check out this blaster of a line up: Me, Peter Lanyon (beautifully crafted sustainable furniture and lighting), Alice Wood (practical, simple and stylish leather bags), RAMP (stunningly decorated ceramics that makes me weep with joy), Sigrid Verschraeghen (unique bespoke clothing in natural fabrics), Zsuzi Morrison (exquisitely detailed enamel jewellery), ROCWORX (Marbled textile and leather home items) and Toby Hodges (Peter’s apprentice, who makes beautiful fine hand carved spoons)
Pop along to Lambside Farm, PL8 1HG (between Noss Mayo and Battisborough Cross in the South Hams, South Devon) on 4th – 5th December 2021 between 10 am – 5 pm.
Apart from our handmade wares, we will also be selling refreshments to raise money for Project Green Hands which is a huge volunteer driven tree planting project in Southern India to halt and reverse deforestation and bring the Cauvery River back to life.
I’m absolutely delighted to be taking part in the fabulous Blue Magpie Contemporary Craft Fair again this coming weekend, Friday 19th, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st November 2021.
Find me exhibiting alongside some truly wonderful makers. Stuff the big brands for your gifts this year, come and support small businesses, many of which have had a really rocky couple of years.
All details are on the poster below. Don’t forget to book your tickets in advance by going to the Blue Magpie Website.
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