LOCAL PEOPLE so much better, also with glass I love the fact you can manipulate it to have texture, it’s contoured, not flat.’ She particularly likes to take on commissions, and said this type of work was good for ‘thinking outside the box’. Since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic she has also tried to use art in a positive way. ’Because of my health problems I can’t go back to nursing but I wanted to do something, so I made lots of little glass hearts and sent them to Derriford ICU,’ said Lou. ‘It was just a very small thing but I felt I wanted to do something - give them a thank you, a little keepsake. The NHS is suffering but a lot of the charities are too. ‘Last year I made a lot of glass elephants, sold them and gave the money to St Luke’s. It wasn’t a lot, I am only a little one man band, but I’d like to do something again this year for them.’ Lou works maybe ten hours a week on her glasswork, which is available to buy at several South West galleries she’s also a regular at Tavistock Arts Market. ‘When I’m not doing it I am still thinking about it, because it’s a passion, it’s hard not to do it,’ said nature and dog lover Lou. ‘I won’t take any credit for doing the garden but I love to enjoy it when I can,’ she said. ‘We get deer in the
woods, we have badgers, we have foxes - it feels very rural. And probably because I’m surrounded by them, I am fascinated by trees - each season offers a new perspective, each is so beautiful.’ n Jane Honey
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