Dapple Mobile and Summer Holiday Workshops

This week the amazing Summer Show at MAKE Southwest in Bovey Tracey opened, and I’m really proud to have the biggest piece of 3D work that I’ve ever made, right in the middle of the exhibition. I have to confess that when I saw it hanging in the public, it brought a tear to my eyes! 
It’s a statement kinetic mobile, measuring about 2  x 2 meters, based on that beautiful dappled light you get in the summer when sunlight filters through leaves. In Japan there is a specific word for this – komorebi. It’s been a real test of my engineering brain and skills; it took me a few months to develop and complete, using a technique of cutting, carefully arranging and melting coloured plastic shampoo and detergent bottles into small elements which graduate in colour through the mobile.
To link in with the exhibition, I’m running 2 family fun mobile making sessions in the education room there, both on Tuesday 18th August. One in the morning: CLICK HERE and one in the afternoon: CLICK HERE
This is a really lovely chance for adults and children to work together to create a collaborative work of art to hang in your home, I absolutely love doing the family sessions at MAKE Southwest with my daughter, and will definitely be attending some of them this year!

Also, coming up next week, Peter Lanyon and I are running another fabulous lampmaking workshop for children. A really great way for a child to create an actual working lamp complete with a watercolour and oil pastel decorated paper shade. CLICK HERE for more information and to book.

Family craft workshop at Make Southwest

Over the summer holidays, I had the pleasure of running a day of family workshops at Make Southwest in Bovey Tracey. Children and their adults came along to make some stunning tissue paper and wire flowers. Using pliers, snips, scissors, felt pen and water sprays they made some amazing collections of flowers, then they drilled holes in wood blocks to display them in.

As usual, I was blown away by the creativity and skill that some quite young children brought along with them; The flowers were quite tricky for young fingers to make, but as you can see from just a few of the resulting flowers below, they really outdid themselves!

A massive thank you to everyone who came along and made the day so enjoyable, and to Make Southwest for hosting me again.