Richard Wright on Botanical Oil Lamps
Richard is an enterprising and innovative Norfolk farmer who began making his oil lamps during the recent farming recession. The lamps consist of glass bottles of all sizes from cylindrical to heart shape. They contain plants and other items covered in oil, with a long lasting glass fibre wick. As he talked, Richard made up a bottle using dyed and dried flowers. He also uses silk flowers, feathers, grasses from the Broads and his farm, wheat grains and sea shells, and makes up lamps in the style of cottage garden. old English and seashore. He told us how he'd set up a small business and taken his lamps around local farmers' markets etc. As the business expanded he set up a web site and now sells little bits of Norfolk worldwide. We were impressed by his industry and his evocative and amusing talk and many of us bought one of his lamps afterwards.
Next Meeting February 12th when Sheila Adams will talk to us about the Plantation Garden, Earlham Road founded by by Henry Trevor in 1856