A LOCAL artist held a pebble painting class to add some colour to the Fullarton Fairy Trail.

On Monday, October 9, Troon resident and artist, John Morris got children from the area to create pebble art and to engage community involvement at Café 141. 

This comes with the launch of the newly installed Story Telling Chair and benches for all the community to use.

Donna Read, said: “Pebble art is great fun and we thought it would be great to have community involvement. The children who attend John Morris art at cafe 141 had a great time.

“Last year the committee from the fairy trail were lucky to receive £1000 from the council’s Particatory budget fund, we then matched this with £1000 of funds we had raised.

"We instructed East Ayrshire Woodlands to make our chair and benches. The purpose is so that families and groups can bring a book and read to their children in the woods. It’s a fantastic setting and reading stories to children is great for their development.”

Mark Davies, Community Woodland Officer for East Ayrshire Woodlands, added: “We were delighted to be asked to design and construct a storytelling throne for the fairy trail and that the requirement was for a unique, handmade piece rather than something off the shelf as we only work with timber that we acquire through essential maintenance work in and around our woodland sites.

"This resulted in what we see as a lovely focal point in the woods, full of character, with every part formed with traditional hand tools and created with feeling and with a connection to the trail. We hope it will be a wonderful resource and an inspiration to people’s imagination and creative thinking.”