Diana Adams, of the Avice Hill Arts and Crafts Centre, with a critter she created with papier mache.

Artist Diana Adams is on a mission — to develop arts and crafts in the Fendalton, Ilam, Burnside and Waimairi communities.

An accomplished painter herself, due to hold her own exhibition in the spring, Diana is based at the Avice Hill Arts and Crafts Centre, 395 Memorial Avenue.

She is employed to co-ordinate the centre’s craft activities, which range from children’s art to patchwork to a painters’ group and to papier mache sculpture.
With school holidays coming up in a few weeks, Diana is preparing a programme for primary school children which will be available shortly, and will include pottery, sculpture painting and a shadow puppet workshop.

The centre was gifted to the Council in 1986 by one of New Zealand’s first commercial herb growers, Avice Hill, to help foster arts and crafts in the local community. Diana’s craft section shares premises with the Canterbury Potters Association and Canterbury Herb Society.

For more information on the upcoming school holiday programme, or other sessions and courses available at Avice Hill Centre, call in to the centre at 395 Memorial Avenue or contact Diana Adams on 358 3535.