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character emerges. It is a its creator; the result is so
tricky concept to uniquely theirs.
communicate, there is no
set pattern, no right way and Nowadays, I divide my time
each new animal presents between making, exhibiting
it’s own challenges. I love this and teaching. Our boys are
way of working, it’s both at school now (at least

organic and the creatures they were until COVID turned
evolve throughout the everything upside down) so
process, but it can take a bit theoretically I have more
of mental adjustment for time to create. I have a small
participants in my classes. studio/fabric nest at home,
By the end of the second which is my place of escape.
workshop in Australia I was I love the feeling of being
hooked; I can’t have done totally consumed by

too badly because they whatever it is I am working on,
asked me back again a it’s easy to lose myself in the
couple of years later. process, digging for the
perfect piece of fraying
Following on from my first fabric for an eyelash or the
workshops in Australia, I right leaf print to accentuate
began to host my own events an ankle or a haunch. I’m not
back in the UK, I teach looking for realism; my work
people to make a mouse or seeks a feeling of life and
a bird on one-day workshops, soul. The animals come into
and also offer longer being and they pull me in,
workshops where there is a turning point with

participants can attempt each sculpture I make, a
whichever animal they fancy moment when the personality
(within reason). appears and begins to direct
I meet so many kindred spirits its own evolution, it feels a bit
in my teaching, the methods I like magic. I am very lucky to
utilise seem to really have found a way to make a
encourage individual living doing something I love,
expression. I feel like it’s quite the journey has been

a cathartic process, for unpredictable, my work and
myself and for my students, where it takes me is
and gives us a space in time unpredictable too, and that’s
to get lost in our own just the way I like it.
creativity whilst being free
enough to encourage us to Cheers
discover our own
interpretation. The outcomes Bryony
never fail to astonish me,
each sculpture reflects the
personality and mood of