Sculpture in the Woods

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Had a great but exhausting weekend running an Sculpture Portrait course for a small keen and very friendly group of novices .

We worked  in a  converted barn at Bavins, Nr Alton in Hampshire which is set in a wonderful wood where the bluebells and wild garlick was in abundance. We even ate some of our surroundings in the form of a beautiful nettle  soup and also a wild garlick soup made by our host  Jenny Ospici.  I will be certainly make this in the future. The food was lovely and plentiful which gave us the much needed  fortification to really work hard on the sculpture.
Such a lot was achieved over the space of two days by  the group who were  inspired by Ellie who was a fantastic model.
I felt a strange mixture of  mental elation, physical exhaustion and a sadness that such delightful company had to depart on Sunday evening.
I do hope that we can all meet up again and take what we have learned

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