MAGGIE SMITH
Join Maggie for this WILLOW BARK x3 day workshop.
Over the 3 days Maggie will share her skills and knowledge of making with willow bark to enable each student to design and create their own individual pieces.
3 different methods of accessing bark will be looked at with discussion around the different qualities of bark resulting and the different techniques they lend themselves to.
If the season allows you will strip some of the bark you will use, if not you will have an allocation of pre stripped bark to work with.
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As well as some group tuition, Maggie will work with each student one to one, to bring their own design ideas to fruition with the bark available.
UK basket maker, Maggie, started making baskets and growing her own willow in the early 1990s, becoming increasingly hooked and studying where and when she could, finally completing her Part 2 C&Gs in Creative Basketry at the City Lit London in 2004.
By 2011 she was working full time as a Basket maker, teaching, showing and exhibiting widely.
She is well-known for her work exploring Willow and all its possibilities, an obsession that continues to this day as do the discoveries.
SUITABLE FOR: EXPERIENCE NEEDED