ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

forest + folk has been a long time coming and a lucky shift at the Paris Wincey Mills meant that Lisa could take the leap into this new chapter, I asked her about the balance of being gallery curator and a featured artist “I can find it hard to sell my stuff but I love selling other people’s things so I figured the two of us together - me and the community - can make it work”

All of the artists have elements of nature in their pieces: beautiful pottery from Tessa at Palette Potter, fascinating paintings from collage artist Linny Jones (Tree Of Life Studios), pretty and precious metalwork jewellery from Karen Wettlaufer (Found Studios), wonderful fibre art from Jennifer Budd (Woolscapes), lovely wildlife photography from Alyx Parks and Jamie McClure, plus Lisa’s work - characterful and whimsical paintings - and other items selected to round out this charming line up of arts and crafts people.

I asked Lisa about the future of forest + folk and she said “my goal here is just to bring together as many like-minded, art-loving people as I possibly can; people who love art, people who love up cycling, people who love nature. We have an amazing community here, we have so many amazing trails and amazing people and creators, so what are we waiting for?! Let’s make this happen!” Cheers to that Lisa! And to the whole endeavour! forest + folk is open Thursday to Saturday 9 AM to 5 PM and Sunday 10 AM to 4 PM at the Paris Wincey Mills Co in downtown Paris, and you can find them on instagram on @ForestAndFolk