Trees
These vibrant wall hangings are created using a wet felting process.  Wool, silk and organic
materials such as leaf skeletons and bark are worked with hot soapy water until they felt together  
to create a natural bond.

My early felt works were inspired by my love of trees.  I thought about trees rooted in the same
place for decades suffering the indignities of pollution and chainsaws.  So I gave them legs and
voices to discuss their environment and their feelings, to protest and run from a bad habitat.

Each of the tree felts contains a tiny bit of reality and a lot of whimsy. The trees are wise, funny,
smart alecks who deal with their own struggles of identity, gender, origin, global and environmental
issues, illness and their sense of belonging.  The titles reflect those struggles and issues.

I have a number of themes going at the   moment: Tree Revival - trees facing issues of survival and
rebirth (
Tree on a Protest March), Tree Migration/Evolution -   trees going places (Palm migration -
Next Stop Somalia
), and Tree Discourse - two trees discussing an important point (Palms at the
Learned Society
).  
Palm Migration: Next Stop Somalia -
palms surfing the wild waves
Wool and silk with seaweed mounted
on black silk fabric
30x34"
Tree Running from a bad habitat
Wool and silk, Lombardy poplar leaf
skeletons
Framed 30x30"
Artist's Collection
Tree of Colour
Wool and silk with Lombardy poplar
leaf skeletons
18" x 24" mounted on silk covered
frame
SOLD
Trees Have Broken Dreams Too
Wool and silk with broken Lombardy
poplar leaf skeletons
18" x 24" with a silk backing- window
hanging
Baobab for Breasts
Wool and silk
18" x 24" window hanging
Tree under the African Sky
Wool and silk with Lombardy poplar
leaf skeletons
Big Tree Small Axe
Wool and silk with Lombardy poplar
leaf skeletons
18" x 24"  wall hanging
SOLD
Tree Goes Green
Wool and silk with Alder leaf skeleton
and seaweed
50x50 cm shadowbox
SOLD
Tree on a Protest March II
Wool and silk with Lombardy poplar
leaf skeletons and seaweed
20x20" shadowbox
SOLD
Big art for Little Minds Charity Auction
Coiled
Wool and silk,  with embedded
bracelets and peacock feathers
20x20"
SOLD
Swimming with the fishes
Wool and silk with Lombardy poplar
leaf skeletons
34x34" mounted on silk fabric
First Tree to Climb out of the
Primordial sea
Wool and silk with Lombardy poplar
leaf skeletons, seaweed
34x34" mounted on silk fabric
Tree Over Easy
Wool and silk with birch bark and
Lombardy Poplar leaf skeleton
32x34" mounted on silk fabric
Shown at 2006 Scarborough Arts
Council show
Arbutus - protesting the paving of
paradise
Wool and silk with Arbutus bark
20x20" shadowbox
Big Art for Little Minds Charity Auction
Tree Emitting Hydrocarbons
Wool and silk with cocoons, silk rope
20"x20" framed