with Heather Goulet

Learn the art of making beautiful rock like containers using the hypertufa technique. Each participant will make a pot during the workshop and take it home with them. Hypertufa allows you to use any interesting bowl or object as a mold for your pot. Once you learn the technique, you will be able to create sculptural containers for your garden at home.

Instructor, gardener and sculpture Heather Goulet  a will teach you how to measure and mix her own recipe for long lasting tufa pots. Participants can bring a vessel with a shape that they like, for example a plastic or metal  bowl to use as a mold. Pots can be decorated with  leaf impressions on the outside, embedded pebbles, glass or shell around the rims. On the second day everyone will reveal their pots and trim the edges. Heather will also share some options on how to plant  and create your tufa garden pot.

Two Sessions:
June 19th @ 10:00pm – 1:00pm &
June 26th @ 9:00am – 12:00pm

HCP Members $75
Non-Members $90

Instructor Bio: Heather Goulet
Heather is a gardener and landscaper by trade. She has lived in Deep Cove for 37 years where she has created beautiful landscaped and organic vegetable gardens. Her gardens have hosted numerous art and garden tours
including the North Saanich Flavour Trail.

Heather started with sculpture as therapy and worked mostly in paper mache creating some large art pieces. She soon ran out of indoor space and turned to the outdoors. Heather continued learning the art of sculpture on Denman Island with Michael Kapati and later with David Hunwick at Victoria College of Art. She then began to use concrete to create sculpture for the outdoors and has been doing so for the last decade. Heather continues to develop her artistic her skill and has explored concrete leaf prints, body casting, spheres and mosaic. Heather also teaches garden sculpture and hosts small workshops from her home studio.