2010 workshops
feltmaking & more...
• felt birds & animals
• green roofs
• clay ovens
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The Old Chapel
This Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in 1867 - a time of great social upheaval, when the difference between Church & Chapel revealed deep divisions in rural society. 140 years later I'm continuing its traditional role as a meeting place for creative ideas & events - with a suitably non-conformist approach. These practical, down to earth workshops are inspired by the landscape & its natural materials.
• wool from the sheep
• clay from the field
 Brierley Hill
The old chapel is built in the beautiful unchanged landscape above Presteigne, a stone’s throw from the view of three counties on Stonewall Hill. A place where buzzards & ravens soar on the thermals above, while sheep & cattle graze down in the valley below. Lovely country for walking on the nearby Offa's Dyke Path. www.offasdyke.demon.co.uk
The small Welsh border town of Presteigne has good pubs as well as the excellent Hat Shop restaurant, Also home of the Tour de Presteigne electric bike rally as well as an electric bike shop www.onbike.co.uk
2010 Spring event
The Bird Hide installation in the Wildlife Garden
at the Natural History Museum, London
The Wildlife Garden was opened in 1995 as the Natural History Museum’s first living and working exhibition. The one acre garden has a range of British lowland habitats - deciduous woodland, chalk meadow, heathland, reedbed and ponds, and is also home to a couple of Dartmoor sheep.
I have done a couple of events there over
the last few years, taking my yurt & running workshops. In April I’ll be teaching a bird making workshop for the members, then next day Sunday April 11 is the Open Garden Day and my Bird Hide and its felt birds will all be in place. I’ve been working through the list of species seen in the Garden, 28 in all, from ducks to dunnocks - quite a task...not sure I’ll make them all.
Come & sit in the Bird Hide & do a spot of birdwatching. Try to find birds - real & otherwise - perching around the wonderfully various Wildlife Garden habitats. Bring your binoculars...
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD UK
visit http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/wildlife-garden-whatson/
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