Storytelling

Storytelling is an ancient custom, a means of keeping folk memories and traditional culture alive.  Stories well told encourage children to listen and concentrate, storytelling workshops can enable them to develop the ability to become storytellers themselves.  Stories  can be a means of exploring personal and social problems or entering into a world of make believe.  They can also be the doorway into the world of generations past so providing a way to greater understanding of the world today.

Fantasy is fun but it can also be a way of revealing a new view of reality, drawing both children and adults into a different world where it is safe to look at problems that are otherwise difficult to discuss.

History becomes real when revealed by a storyteller who was there at the time.  The past becomes a tangible presence and children wake up to the possibilities of researching oral history for themselves. 

But above all a storyteller is an artist in words who paints pictures on the canvas of the mind. 

I am happy to travel anywhere in the West Country to share my stories with anyone old enough to listen and young enough to enjoy them.  

The illustrations on this page were found in a tiny manuscript book of unpublished fairy stories hand written by an anonymous Victorian nursery governess.  Click on the images to see the drawings in their original form.