Social and Therapeutic Arts

Karen has 20 years experience and is a qualified Art Psychotherapist. She collaborates on art creation and community gardens with groups who find that participation is transformative and healing. (click for pdf with full info)

Forestry, Timber, Fuel and shelter - we sell logs - more info here

Touchwood manage a number of woodlands in the Southeast. These provide resources we use for artworks furniture, timber & firewood for sale. With help from volunteers we created an Iron Age Roundhouse. Click this link for an ecological report for our woodland.

"Outdoor Learning"

Karen Wydler leads outdoor learning programmes in a variety of settings, with teenagers and also children and adults. Learn how to build and use an earth oven in your home or school garden. (Click on highlighted words to download relevant pdfs).

Weir Community Art Garden

Created from a long neglected corner of a housing estate, people from the commnunity came together to design and make all the artworks and features for the garden.
(click for a pdf with pics and info on the community garden)

"Wheat"

Bolnore village square, Haywards Heath (public sculptures case study)