Taking slices of of beautiful cherry wood, Kiri sanded them, then used pyrography to create a variety of designs as Christmas decorations. These were then finished off with red and green twine to allow them to hang on trees

In 2024 Kiri started experimenting with pyrography (free hand burning of designs into wood). So far this has mainly been on hand-cleft birch wood

During the talks at our church, we’re encouraged to express ourselves creatively, so there are pads of paper with pencil crayons available for all. Here are a selection of the illustrations that Kiri produced during a variety of church talks through 2024

This was our fourth advent window – this time created with masking tape instead of electrical tape (in the hope that it would be easier to clean off… in fact it was harder to clean off!). Luke 1v78-79 in the New Living Translation reads:

Because of God’s tender mercy, the morning light from heaven is about to break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to guide us to the path of peace.

Kiri was asked to design a poster for a new course running at Westonbirt Arboretum called “Take One Tree”. The concept of the course was to take a birch tree and make various products out of the wood using traditional craft methods. Products included a besom broom, a kuksa (wooden cup), a chopping board, a table, a shrink pot and a spoon, which Kiri incorporated into the poster, along with some of the tools used to make these items.

This was our third advent window and we wanted to draw a parallel between Jesus as a refugee and those who had fled Ukraine in 2022. As with the previous year, this was created mainly with tissue paper and electrical tape, but with paint mixed with PVA glue for the wording

Our front bay window looks out onto a fairly busy thoroughfare so during COVID we created our first advent window using paint mixed with PVA glue and tissue paper… which sort of worked. This window was our second attempt the following year, with the lines instead created with electrical tape. We put a lamp behind the window so that the light-filled message would shine out in the darkness

We were commissioned to re-write a website for a private tutor. The previous iteration of the website had many different illustration of a compass, but these were from different sources and in different styles. So our customer asked Kiri to put together a set of compass illustrations that would be more consistent and uniform for the new site.