Market Hall Community Activities

Saturday 4th May 1pm-3pm

Workshop - Make a Story Doll with Cheryl Hewitt

During this two-hour workshop you will create a Story Doll out of recycled textiles, beads, and (if you like) a token you bring that has meaning to you. In choosing materials, colours and embellishments and stitching them together with attention and intention, you will create a treasure imbued with personal meaning.

This is a 2 hour workshop for older teenagers and adults with some stitchery experience. 

The workshop is free but you must register ahead of time as spaces are limited.  Please use the contact form below to register your interest.
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Cheryl Hewitt is a Herefordshire based artist. Growing up in a rural environment she spent most of her childhood exploring the fields and woods surrounding the family farm, making up stories and collecting lost or broken things to keep in an old shoe box under her bed!

 Cheryl’s creative practice is inspired by her childhood experiences, her surrounding natural environment and traces of memory. She enjoys engaging with vintage and reclaimed textiles as they often have their own stories to tell. Her pieces are primarily hand stitched, giving Cheryl time to engage with the fabrics and reflect on their previous life. She uses eco dyeing, staining, and bundle dyeing to age the fabrics further. Cheryl often incorporates wax and found objects to gain a feeling of otherworldliness. It is the intention of these sometimes-quiet textile pieces to communicate childhood stories, to capture a sense of forgotten moments.

Found objects provide their own narratives; Objects, especially those that are misplaced or abandoned, can quietly speak of a previous life. An unfinished piece of embroidery or a worn and much-loved child’s teddy have the power to evoke memory.

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