A HOLWELL bakery is adding artistic flair to cake production after being awarded a £2,000 grant to help promote Dorset Art Weeks.
Honeybuns, the producer of gluten-free cakes and biscuits, has been supporting local events and organisations since opening in 2002. This year it decided to get involved in the art weeks by providing a workspace for village artist Kim Creswell in the Bee Shack café at it’s base in Niash Farm.
Miss Creswell specialises in creating distinctive sculptures out of local materials such as willow, hazel, ash, flowers, foliage and herbs.
The bakery has been given the arts and business grant by Dorset County Council for helping to foster local talent.
Honeybuns director Emma Goss-Custard said the money would be used to help promote the bakery’s contribution to the art week from Saturday 27 May to Sunday 11 June.
“We are always trying to reach out to the local community and help in anyway we can, so when Kim said she was looking for a workspace to create her willow sculptures I was more than happy for her to work here,” she said.
“We want to really try and encourage local artists and this grant will help us to publicise this event and get it to the recognition it deserves.”
Miss Creswell said she was overwhelmed to have such support from a local business.
“I’ve wanted to take part in Dorset Art Weeks for a couple of years but I travel around quite a lot and I’ve never had a chance to do it. Now I’ve been offered the chance to use the Bee Shack. I’ve got a base and a place to exhibit.
“I really love Dorset and I use local materials such as hedgerows and flowers to create sculptures that I hope reflects the richness of the county. The sculptures are going to be inspired by folklore and Dorset myths and will be much more detailed than the willow sculptures I create in summer.”
Mrs Goss-Custard said she hoped the union of local art and local food will be a feast for the senses.
“Sometimes it’s easy not to see what is under your nose. By using locally grown materials to reflect some of the richness of our area I hope that audiences will feel closer to the heart of Dorset.”
BAKER BACKER - Emma Goss-Custard, director
of Honeybuns, hopes the union of local art and local food will be a
feast for the senses.
WEAVING WORK -Willow sculptor Kim Creswell
will be setting up a studio in the café at Honeybuns bakery
as part of Dorset Art Weeks.