Daffodil Project

A 3-dimensional object, shaped like a fruit or bulb, woven from dried and golden daffodil stems
TITLE: Monocrop
Size: 16cm x 18cm x 15cm
Materials: Daffodil stems (Narcissus)
Artwork of ten bunched vessels woven from dried daffodil stems
TITLE: Bunch of ten
Size: 44cm x 14cm x 16cm
Materials: Daffodil stems (Narcissus)
Bowl made from 100% waste from Cornish daffodil fields
TITLE: Vessel
Scale: 30cm x 30cm x 12cm
Materials: Daffodil stems (Narcissus) after harvest

Daffodils have been grown in Cornwall for well over a hundred years. Sometimes the flowers are not picked and the leaves and stems shrivel back and are left in the field to decompose. Visiting the same field in far, West Cornwall I started to harvest these dried, discarded stems. As the weeks turned to months I started to explore them as a material and create objects with them.

Heritage craft made from dried, gleened daffodil stems sitting in a field
TITLE: Adornment
Scale: 45cm x 28cm
Materials: Daffodil stems (Narcissus)
Forager Rachel Lambert standing in a field with gleened daffodil stems
Aerial view of bowl made from 100% daffodils sitting in the field of daffodils where in was made
A white lurcher sitting in a field of dried daffodil stems

This is an on-going project exploring the natural, ‘waste’ materials left in the cultivated daffodil fields to create sustainable, zero-waste objects and bowls. Want to learn how to work creatively with plants? I run short workshops on Wild Cordage Making and How to Make a Bowl or Pot from Plants.