Willow Art Projects for Schools

 we are now taking bookings for school art projects, great or small. we can work with any age group and can create projects that involve the whole school on large sculptures or smaller groups or classes to make individual sculptures for display in classrooms or school gardens.
we can work with up to groups of 30 children at a session, often with the children working in pairs to make large structures or animals.
all we require is an indoor space for groups to work in if the weather is cold or wet. look at our photo galleries to see what can be created by enthusiastic children!

SCHOOL WILLOW WEAVING PROJECTS

 we had a nice week working in 2 very different primary schools last week.  2 days at each one. We created a lovely living willow dome and tunnel at a school in Warrington. Then we moved on to Birmingham to an inner city school where we worked on willow sculptures with all the children of Year 3. we made a giant sun, birds, wands and a deer.

MAGICAL WILLOW MAINTENANCE

 We often get asked to repair living willow structures that have been neglected by schools. often schools don't have the time or expertise to repair their willow structures but want to keep them as they are so popular with the children.
The long tunnel in the pictures is a least 12 years old and was not planted by us. whoever did plant it used the worst possible willow variety, bowles hybrid, as it is horribly inflexible when trying to weave in new growth.
We had to do a severe haircut job on the tunnel to get it back into some semblence of its original shape but it will look great by early summer with its new growth.

LIVING WILLOW COURSE

 We are running our first Living Willow Course of the year today. We are weorking in our new willow garden at Gatebeck near Endmoor. Not a bad day weatherwise, a bit dampo but at least the ground is not frozen.
As we were amongst the first to use Living Willow our students have our vast experience to learn from.
Everyone is happy building a dome at the moment!

GIRL GUIDE WILLOW WORKSHOP

 last summer we worked with The Girl Guides at one of their summer camps in Kent. We were part of the activities on offer. As it was a totally outdoor event we were very lucky with the weather and only needed our gazebo in the afternoon when there was a massive downpour.

WILLOW WEAVING FOR SCOUTS, GUIDES and BROWNIES

 we have worked with quite a few groups in recent years running workshops for summer events. the picture is of a trefoil which is the logo of the Girl Guides. we made this clover leaf and some other sculptures on a one day workshop in Carlisle.

CUMBRIAN SCHOOL PROJECT

This is a garden project that we did a couple of years ago