Felt as a ‘slow’ and sustainable art

When we think of felt and felt making, the physicality of its production, the simple but magical combination of fibre, water and friction, we are reminded that this contemporary and enduring craft has it’s origin in ancient history.

It is these elements of cultural and historical ancestral reference and the beauty of the raw fibre worked by hand which can be seen in Maureen’s recent felt pieces. She is sourcing the exquisite grey fleece from Gotland and Ryeland sheep farmed locally. The immediacy of this relationship between producer and maker is a great example of the richness and rewards to be experienced by a maker whose practice sits so comfortably and essentially within ‘slow’ philosophy and sustainability.

Maureen has been exploring felt from its dense compacted and compressed state through to its almost transparent fragility.

Del & Lisa