Description

Join us for this fun event to celebrate the ASID competition vignette winners, have some artesian pizza cooked in the pizza oven and refreshements as well as create a felting masterpiece!

Artist Statement:

I work with the most ancient, and probably most endangered textile technique: I combine raw, carded wool with water, soap, and vigorous kneading to create a durable, unwoven, dense, and environmentally sustainable material: felt. I often hand-dye my materials and incorporate silk fabrics and other materials to enrich the surface.

In 2022 I invented a technique where I pleat hand-dyed silk strips and then felt it in a merino wool base. The rhythm, the frequency and the varied size pleats create a 3 dimensional, pixelated abstract picture for the distant viewer.

My work is mainly inspired by shapes, textures and beauty in the surrounding nature of the PNW, reflections on water, and magnified details (e.g. a magnified butterfly wing or lichen surfaces).

Felting is not bound to any frame or instruments in the process. The work can expand in size, can be created in any shape, and even can be sculpted.

Wool is organic and renewable, and handmade felt is a versatile material to soften modern industrial interiors while performing many environmental benefits (sound abatement, moisture management, natural insulation, fire resistance - and can be fireproofed, too).

Handmade felt is an underestimated and underrepresented medium in the art world. My mission is to break the boundary between fine craft and art and bring felt back to modern living spaces and interior design.