I am a fiber artist, though I went to school for 2-d design. My felting "career" began while teaching a camp at the Imaginattic here in Cincinnati. I was enthralled by the tactility of wool and immediately began thinking about how I could translate some of my drawings and paintings into the felt medium.
Many people ask me how I create my work, and the simplest explanation is that I take a needle, and stab at the wool over and over again, pushing the wool into the desired shape. It is remarkably simple, but to create a piece that is high-quality, it is time intensive.
I recently told a friend that if I was trying to keep track of the time spent on each piece, so that I might price my work by the hour, I would probably cry. That's an area in which I struggle, and will be working on in the next couple of days, as I am preparing work for the store at the Contemporary Arts Center, and an event there on the 12th of December. Check out my first little felted friend, Freddy the Sheep, on the CAC website! http://store.contemporaryartscenter.org/
Today, I spoke with the owner of Beehive Co-op, which is opening in the neighborhood of Pleasant Ridge, about carrying my pieces and doing some work with and potentially teaching some classes for them. I am excited to be a part of a designer's coop and to meet some fellow artists/designers. And it made me really really want to live in that neighborhood. We'll be looking for homes very soon, and that is one of the front runners on our list. Here's a link to what they do... http://www.beehiveco-op.com/
I am in the middle of making my pieces for the CAC, so I'll be writing more later...
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