HAIRDRESSER Laura Harradine started curling paper to make family Christmas cards, and now she is exhibiting her artworks publically.

Ms Harradine, from Wantage, has held her first show, Laura’s Homemade Gifts, at the town’s Vale and Downland Museum.

She said: “I always liked art at school but a few years ago I started watching online tutorials on paper-crafts and decided to have a go.

“My friends really liked my cards but after a while I decided I wanted to make something that was not just for special occasions but something people could keep and look at for longer.

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“I started collecting patterned paper and embellishments and put them together as a picture.

“I really liked the 3D boxed frames and decided to make pictures which could be displayed in them.

“Then I discovered the craft of paper quilling and loved it.”

Quilling is the art of tightly coiling strips of paper to make three-dimensional whorls.

Ms Harradine added: “I thought it would be fun to make pictures using this technique and some of these are in my exhibition.

“My family and friends have really liked my designs so I was hoping visitors to the exhibition would too.”

The exhibition opened at the Church Street museum’s Squires Room on Tuesday, October 7, and runs until tomorrow.

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