For Kat Rowlands, her Felt shop The Quirky Kat is part of a bigger picture: part of the plan of renovating and living in her over-100 year-old house, “Olive-Tree Cottage” with her husband, growing organic fruits, vegetable and nuts, keeping chooks, preparing delicious, nutritious foods, home-schooling her son – and running a business from home that utilises her creative abilities.
Woodend Art and Craft Expo, 10.30am–4pm, Sunday 31 August, Woodend
The Canterbury town of Woodend will be the place to be on 31 August for local makers who’d like to learn new skills. Experience a wide variety of craft activities for yourself via their innovative 30 minute “speedcraft” classes – who knows, you might just meet your perfect new craft!
Art in Clay
10–25 May, The Tin Palace, Lyttelton
Not to be missed this month is joint exhibition Art in Clay by Christchurch potter Tatyanna Meharry of The Busy Finch and fellow ceramicist Andrew Carran, at The Tin Palace in Lyttelton.
Tatyanna Meharry teaches pottery at Risingholme Community Centre and works as The Busy Finch creating artisan ceramics…
Jane and Mario of Ironweed produce handmade Kiwiana garden art from recycled steel in their home workshop in beautiful Little River on Banks Peninsula. Jane is a qualified designer and sculptor and Mario is a certified welder. Together they have combined their respective skills to produce a range of designs influenced by their Kiwi colonial backgrounds.
From her home in Oxford, fine artist Celia Wilson is capturing the colours of Canterbury in way that could not be more down to earth. She creates paint using pigments she gathers from the local landscape, both as a craft process in its own right and also as a part of her own art practice.