KATHERINE MILES

WILLOW ARTIST
Unitarian Chapel, Moretonhampstead

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Email:  katherine.miles@btinternet.com
Phone: 07762 387347
Website: www.artisan-willow.com
 

Famed throughout the South West for her life-sized willow animal sculptures, Katherine's work is displayed in stately homes, private gardens and as interior design pieces. 

Katherine's studio, in a chapel in the town of Moretonhampstead, is crammed with sculptures of beasts, including highland cows, pigs, horses, deer, donkeys, sheep, goats, hares, owls, llamas, foxes, swans and birds of prey.

It takes Katherine up to 10 days to create one sculpture, with horses the most complex because of their fine muscle definition. 

Groups of animals - a mother and baby, a family, or a pack of animals - are Katherine's favourite type of commission because, she says, "it's as if there's communication going on between them."

Katherine says: "There's something about texture, the smell and feel of weaving with willow. It has a rustic, earthiness to it. It's very grounding."

Katherine stops short of giving her animals names, but she says she gets very attached to each one. "When I weave their faces, the animals come alive and become their own characters. I end up missing them when I sell them."

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Visit Katherine in her workshop and watch her weave her beautiful animal sculptures. Call ahead.

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