This series of workshops will fuse elements of Living, Creating and learning, using Galway’s Living bog and its gardens, cultural influence and beauty to bring the community of Mountbellew together.<\/p>\n
Living – We will have a willow artist teach and instruct how to build and maintain a real living structure that will grow over the coming years at Galway’s Living Bog and become a part of our community gardens here for years to come.<\/p>\n
Creating – To create a showpiece tapestry of Galway’s Living Bog with Mountbellew Crochet group with a crochet artist over a series of evening workshops. The attendees will each take a section of a bog picture and be asked to recreate this in the medium of wool exploring textures, connection and stories of the bog.<\/p>\n
Learning – Local artist Leonie Sutton will teach with textures and colours a group of our weekly attendees from Ability West showing how art is a valuable resource for both earning and fun for members of our community of all abilities. <\/p>\n