Skip to main content

 

Creativity and Nature



Join me at Ty’r Felin on 28th June for a day exploring creativity and nature.

Your facilitator Helen Papworth

I am a retired educator and writer/illustrator who is currently studying for a Permaculture Diploma. After a career spent teaching and managing, I moved to Ethiopia as a VSO volunteer in 2004 then retrained as an illustrator for children’s publishing. I gained my PhD on the subject of Ethiopian Children’s Illustrated Literature and continue to illustrate books for Ethiopian publishers. I also now train artists in Ethiopia to illustrate children’s books.

I live at Ty’r Felin where I practice permaculture ethics, principles and techniques in my home and on the land where I have developed a Forest Garden.

Your venue Ty’r Felin, Cwm Road, Trelawnyd, Flintshire, LL18 6EF  GR SJ 08815  79158

Ty’r Felin is a mill cottage with a converted mill which is now a studio, and stables, one of which serves as a print room. The buildings are surrounded by gardens with flowers, fruit and vegetables. Beyond these gardens are two fields with a variety of trees, a forest garden, a wildlife pond and wildflower meadows.

Subject to weather conditions on the day, many activities will take place outside across the 2-acre site. The converted mill building (below), which has a toilet and facilities for preparing beverages, will be used for most activities.

Ty’r Felin is situated a quarter of a mile down Cwm Road which leaves the A5151 opposite the school and winds down past a church gate, some houses and a water treatment works to a bridge across a stream.

Parking for 4 cars is in the lay-by is on the right hand side of the road coming from A5151. The property is on the left where another lay-by for 1 car is located by the stream. Additional parking is in the yard.

Spend time in nature

We will aim to start at 10.30 but access is available from 10.00 to allow time for parking.

We will begin with a discussion of what you want to achieve and I will explain the health and safety issues..

We will look at the work of other artists and illustrators and discuss how they have been influenced by nature.

There will be a brief introduction to permaculture as we wander around the area and look at the various zones.

Then you have an opportunity to explore the environment, drawing or painting, using whatever inspires you.

There is a small printing press if any participants wish to try lino printing or other basic printing techniques.

After lunch you will continue to draw, paint or print until we meet up to share the outcomes of the day.

We aim to finish at 3.30.


What you need to bring

A sketchpad, paper and drawing tools along with any other media you like to use. Some paints and pencils will be available along with inks for printing and basic lino cutting tools.

Suitable clothes and footwear. The land slopes and is uneven.

A packed lunch and cold drink’s bottle. Hot drinks and cake will be provided.

Cost: £10

Contact information

Helen Papworth - email address helenpapworth@gmail.com Telephone 07747 637093 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Penmon Point to Pentraeth beach

  We're back on Anglesey and he's joining us for the first bit through these paths between wild flowers and by the high walls of the priory fields. I'm still trying to get this off my nose but nobody's taking any notice of me. Through the gate there's views of the mountains of Eryri and more sheep with lambs. Then he heads back to the car part (and a coffee) while we continue along lanes passing more fields and houses. We pass a herd of belted Galloways who had a lovely view of the sea looking back from where we'd come from. We passed lots of gorze bushes (with the scent of coconut) and eventually dropped down fields and steps to reach the rocky sea shore.  Luckily the path went along a lane for a while until the signpost led us to the shore path which was clear.  I wasn't happy walking along the decking but that was better than walking along the top of the wall that seemed to last for miles.   We got to the end and then I saw him coming towards us. Only ano...
Post a Comment
Read more

Criccieth to Harlech

 It's a cool but sunny spring day and we're back on the Coast Path with Criccieth Castle behind us.  (She'd already done the stretch from Llanystumdwy without me).  There are spring lambs and daffodils. We set off on the promenade, then along the railway, over the hill and down to Black Rock Sands where there was a traffic sign!  We couldn't manage ten miles an hour but some of the cars were racing along the hard sand between the dunes and the sea.  Lunch was on a seat with a view of the estuary and I got some of her sandwich.  Then we headed inland with great views of the mountains of Eryri and Merioneth as well as the distant shoreline.   Then we met Ian on another well placed bench catching up on his correspondence.   The walk from there into Porthmadog was very picturesque.   We returned by train from Talsarnau the next morning and walked from the main railway station back to the Steam Railway and the continuation of the Co...
Post a Comment
Read more

Pwllheli to Llanystumdwy (fishy!)

Yippee!   I got to paddle in the sea.  This was going to be a fun walk, even if she wouldn't let me off the lead.   He dropped us off at the seafront in Pwllheli and (after they'd had a scone and coffee) we walked all the way round the harbour then reached the beach.  There were other dogs but I wasn't interested in them.  There were so many other things to sniff - and taste! Little fishes were all over the sand - she dragged me away after I'd eaten a load.  I think she thought I'd be sick.  It was a very long sandy beach with views to the headland where we were heading and out to sea where I saw a dog on a paddleboard (not alone - there was a human too). When we got near the end of the beach we crossed some dunes and then walked along the pebbles between gorse bushes and a rabbit warren.  Didn't see any. This was her picnic spot - looking for seals in the bay while eating smoked salmon butties (and not sharing them).  We walked ove...
Post a Comment
Read more