Spend a relaxing day making a laminated felt bowl or pot using recycled, natural fabrics. Enjoy the process and create a functional item. Suitable for anyone that enjoys making, no specific skills required, experienced feltmakers will be able to develop the technique further in their own work (it’s great way to use up odd bits […]
“Elements of Nature” exhibition by Mostly Felt (formerly Malvern Felters). Exciting exhibition of new work featuring felt, ecoprint, mixed media with hand and machine embroidery. Please note steep stairs are unfortunately the only access to the gallery.
Embracing Wool are a group of independent textile artists who all work primarily with wool. We are returning to Scampston Hall Walled Garden for our 2024 summer exhibition 'Embracing the Garden' 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the refurbishment of the gardens. The award-winning Walled Garden is a beautiful, contemporary garden, designed by the much […]
Summer sessions in the south of FRANCE, in full board accomodation on site. Anita Johnson is an Australian sculptor and feltmaker who graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Sydney College of The Arts, The University of Sydney. Currently studying a Doctor of Creative Arts at The University of Wollongong, her research […]
In this 5-day in person workshop learn technique for layout/wrapping of various 2D resist template shapes in a consistent thinness of wool fiber while simultaneously integrating distinct areas of denser layout and partial felt shapes to explore differences of shrinkage as a means of sculpting surface relief and hollow form. In addition to raising form […]
This workshop explores looking at wool fibres and felt from the point of view of being a substance for sculpture that can interact with other substances and build upon itself similar to clay. Learn the skill of skin-felting to make hollow sculptural felt forms directly by hand without the use of a plastic resist. This […]
Anita will lead students in learning practical ways of making sculptural assemblages from their found objects. Students will use effective hand-tool methods, cutting, modelling, screwing, wiring, and riveting things together, as they look at ways that narrative can evolve from joining disparate objects together. Skills in using the Dremel and modelling materials to make seamless […]
Anita will lead students in learning practical ways of making sculptural assemblages from their found objects. Students will use effective hand-tool methods, cutting, modelling, screwing, wiring, and riveting things together, as they look at ways that narrative can evolve from joining disparate objects together. Skills in using the Dremel and modelling materials to make seamless […]
Telling the Story of Wool in Somerset As part of this year’s Somerset Art Weeks Festival Somerset Rural Life Museum will be celebrating one of the county’s most sustainable natural products. ‘Spinning a Yarn’ is a partnership project with Somerset Art Works to tell the story of wool in Somerset. Through art installations, an exhibition, […]
This 4-day preparatory workshop has been developed in response to student requests and is highly recommended for those wishing to try out colour, eye types, hair, fur, plumage, surface techniques and other special effects in preparation for making a full animal mask. Whether you are about to embark on your first animal mask, or you […]