1 Day Workshop Willow Light Shade Workshop with Penny Simons ( Sat 29 June 2024 )
Penny will teach us how to make a random weave, willow light shade with locally sourced willow.
DATE: Sat 29 June 2024
ACCOMMODATION:
We’d love to have you stay at Essington Park during your workshop. Accommodation is available at discounted rates. To add accommodation to your booking, tick “yes” for Accommodation* at checkout and we’ll be in touch to arrange your stay. For questions, please contact us.
*Ticking Yes at checkout does not guarantee your accommodation, we will be in touch via email or phone to secure your booking. Spots are limited so please confirm early to avoid disappointment.
Penny will teach us how to make a random weave, willow light shade with locally sourced willow.
DATE: Sat 29 June 2024
ACCOMMODATION:
We’d love to have you stay at Essington Park during your workshop. Accommodation is available at discounted rates. To add accommodation to your booking, tick “yes” for Accommodation* at checkout and we’ll be in touch to arrange your stay. For questions, please contact us.
*Ticking Yes at checkout does not guarantee your accommodation, we will be in touch via email or phone to secure your booking. Spots are limited so please confirm early to avoid disappointment.
Penny will teach us how to make a random weave, willow light shade with locally sourced willow.
DATE: Sat 29 June 2024
ACCOMMODATION:
We’d love to have you stay at Essington Park during your workshop. Accommodation is available at discounted rates. To add accommodation to your booking, tick “yes” for Accommodation* at checkout and we’ll be in touch to arrange your stay. For questions, please contact us.
*Ticking Yes at checkout does not guarantee your accommodation, we will be in touch via email or phone to secure your booking. Spots are limited so please confirm early to avoid disappointment.
1 Day Workshop
Dates: 29 June 2024
Times: 8.30 am with a 9am start – 5pm
Stay with us : To book accommodation in our Shearer’s Quarters or Schoolhouse - email us at hello@essingtonpark.com
What to Bring:
You will need to bring a small sharp knife, 2 old towels, a sharp pair of secateurs.
Overview:
Our day will begin with a morning tea and a welcome from your host Simmone Logue.
Penny will then give a little background on her journey in Botanical weaving, and we will get straight to work to make our beautiful lamp shades. Penny will teach us how to make a random weave, willow light shade with locally sourced willow. Plus how to find, collect, store and prepare foraged willow for weaving. The lightshade makes a beautiful addition to any garden or verandah, or can be turned upside down and used as a basket instead!
A gorgeously nutritious lunch will be served by Simmone using fruit and vegetables from the organic garden at Essington Park.
After lunch we will continue with our weaving.
Afternoon tea will be served before we break in the afternoon for free time.
We will end our time at the fire pit with locally distilled gin and tonic and a cheese platter.
About Penny Simons:
Insta: @penny_simons
https://treevenerationsociety.com/penny-simons
Penny’s work is a fusion of all her studies and lived experience in textiles, art, design, weaving, bio-dynamics and horticulture. Her work resonates deeply with the beauty, vulnerability & spirituality of nature. Penny has worked as an artist and designer all her life, alongside the practise of gardening and working in and with nature. Penny runs workshops both locally and regionally. These and her artworks are formed from a personal practise, working with foraged materials that comes from a place of reciprocity with the earth, all indigenous peoples, and our ancestors. In this way, it aims to restore, reconnect, and heal. Her more recent drawings, prints and wall hangings also reference similar themes: the beauty and exploitation of nature.
An English woman who has spent over 30 years in Australia and half of her childhood in New Zealand, she is connected to the indigenous cultures that lie within all these countries. Her work explores the wisdom, spirituality, and artisan crafts, contained within all these and other indigenous cultures around the world. She hopes the reverence her work makes to these themes, brings unity, collaboration, respect, and a constructive way forward, to help heal, protect, and regenerate our world. Penny was one of the founding partners of “Cloth”, a Sydney-based bespoke textile design business begun in the 1990s, that produced hand-printed, dyed, and constructed textiles for the furnishing and fashion industries. Prior to this Penny gained a BA Hons. Constructed Textiles, majoring in weaving, from Winchester School of Arts.
***Whilst we will do our very best to hold each workshop, we are a small creative business and reserve the right to cancel a workshop with a full refund if we are unable to proceed.