| 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).
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 |
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| 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 |
