My studio pinboard with the original paintings  in natural dyes and the resulting felt landscape

"The Sentinels" Now sold. To the left is a painting also in natural dyes also now sold

North Wales is such a beautiful area that I spend a lot of time just looking, sometimes I work out how I would get the colours I see around me in the natural dyes I use. I dye all the fibres and fabrics I use in my felts and many of the colours I produce are my own recipes.  I work from my own photos or others and then  I often paint pictures with natural dyes on watercolour paper.    I make many pieces of fine felt with layers of colour with a surface texture from lots of different types of silk fibres and silk fabrics such as silk chiffon, organza’s and others all of which I have dyed myself.  Finally most of them I stitch

using my sewing machine zooming up and down my felt as fast as I can go with my poor sewing machine vibrating with the speed.  I often pin the end result to my board for days if not weeks, adding a bit here and there before deciding that it is finished and ready for framing.