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She started making handmade silk and natural fibre paper collages
papers (inspired by Kath Russon) over offering workshops from home, and
20 years ago, using them to collage was flattered to have been asked to
beach finds onto, making and tutor groups in Lottery funded local
attaching driftwood painted Community Projects showing others
lighthouses, little boats and locally new skills too.
collected shells along the bottom of Wendy said “I couldn’t imagine living
the collages. She had them anywhere else now, I am constantly
professionally framed and was selling Inspired by the sea, nature and my
them within 7 local galleries. surroundings, I am lucky enough to
Wendy then took a creative break to have views of the coastline and the sea
study her CertEd Qualification, then from my small house, with a beach at
in her early forties had her son and the bottom of the road and the
began life as an older Mum. picturesque harbour is within a short
A few years passed without any walk”.
creativity as life was busy, but before “I love experimenting, as such
lockdown she started to revisit silk anything goes and stunning textures
