An Everlasting Wreath Workshop

Quiet contemplation & soft autumn light, what a joy it was to spend an afternoon making everlasting floral wreaths with Bex Partridge of Botanical Tales.

Words & Photography : Silkie Lloyd

This was the first workshop at the Forge after a long hiatus and it couldn’t have been more perfect. It’s certainly true to say that a few hours making with your hands softens the edges and allows space for calmness and clarity to seep in. Being alone with your thoughts seems a rarity these days. Gathering together small bunches of bracken, dried foliage, and delicate straw flowers, laid carefully over each other and bound to a hoop of twisted willow, seemed somehow to be the most perfect way to rest and reflect. Simple and unassuming, accompanied by a gentle soundscape of rustling grasses, made for a most beautiful afternoon.

Bex Partridge is a Devon-based botanical artist creating sustainable everlasting designs, displays, and installations. She works with dried flowers throughout their entire lifecycle life from seed, to plant to harvest and then drying and creating.  She is a teacher, maker & mother. Find out more about Bex here

If you would like to join the waitlist for Bex’s next dried flower workshop please email us here