some new workshops

The Netherlands seems attracks all kind of feltteachers from abroad. Via  all kind of social networks I'am very lucky to get to know and meet some of them!

At the end of May I will welcome Claudia U. Gemein from Germany. Her name was mentioned to me when I was visiting in 2007 Turkish feltmaster Mehmet Girgiç. She has done an intensive study in traditional felt and had the chance to work with him some years. Together with her background as a sculpturist she can lead you on an artistic felt path. In the workshop of 27 and 28 May, 2012 we will work with the charasterics of wool in making an unique and personal sculpture.

Kate Ramsey of Fabulous Felt will teach Modern Designs with felt in lines and holes, making a range of scarfs at 9 en 10 June, 2012.

Just one week later Tatiana Sheverda from Australia will come to Europe and she will stop at my atelier. Her speciality is working with felt-shibori. In this 2 days masterclass she will teach the unique way of creating marvelous 3D surfaces from nuno-felted pieces and make series of accessoires and samples featuring a range of shibori techniques.  





Please feel free to send me an email for more information about these workshops

eco-tiles

Our Dutch Feltgroup will celebrate their 20th anniversary next year. Every member is challenged to make a felted tile with a limited size of 30x30cm. They can be flat or 3D and all will be assembled to one big wall. We have been experimenting in at our annual meeting this spring with some technics and idea's, but there was something else on my mind.



some try-outs in Turkish Ottomanstyle and cut-outtechnique (both not finished yet)

I wanted to make something with natural dyes and printing. Each tile with one monoprint on a clear background. But nothing so unpredictable as mother nature. My dye acted as a thunderstorm. It was so dark on the edges and so cloudy in the centre, despite the linenresists I had use to protect the centre. I cleared area's with lemonjuice, which lighten up the whole thing. It was a surpise to see prints on the linenresists. They are like little paintings and so I stitched them at the other side. I still cannot decide a front and a back. It will be a doublefaced tile. Unfortunately I wouldn't split my serie of four and decided to keep them myself.




monoprints on thick nunofelt with mapple-leave and eucalyptus (not finished yet)

What to do next, the deadline was in a few days. Thinking of a tile I came up with words as clean, geometric and simple so I ended up with a natural one. Finaly I made two with some ecodyed nunotextures in the theme 'connection'.




Connection - the completed tiles I send in for the expo-wall next year at the 20th anniversary in 2012 of the VKG, the Dutch feltcontactgroup