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Chocolate artist Prudence Emma Staite is planning to share her creative skills with a range of courses and fun events at her newly extended chocolate workshops near Tewkesbury.

Emma with her chocolate roses

She sculpts chocolate into all kinds of things, ranging from roses and shoes to body parts and even a full-size bed!

See some of her work here:

Well thanks to almost £13,000 investment from the Gloucestershire Rural Renaissance programme, Prudence's Food is Art business is expanding its existing premises in the former milking parlour at Pamington Court Farm.

From September, she will be offering courses to pass on her passion and some of her skills to budding chocolate sculptors.

She joined Mark Cummings on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire breakfast show to tell us more:

Tip of a chocolate shoe

Among her many fans she can now count Damien Hirst who recently commissioned her to make chocolate sculptures of the contemporary artist's much-publicised jewelled skull.

Here she describes the effort that goes into just one of the skulls: