These felted landscapes are interpretations of my own nature photographs, constructed by wet-felting the background of the photograph, then needle felting in mid-ground and foreground details. Most are ready for framing.
This woodland landscape features layers of trees and a forest floor pattern of leafy groundcovers.
Hollyhocks stand against the stone wall of a Mineral Point building.
Poppies dance in the sunlight.
Detail from Poppies
Yellow coneflowers wave in a summer breeze in the prairie garden.
Crabapples reflect from the still early morning surface of a lake.
An aspen woodland of contrasting white and green.
Bloodroot is a spring wildflower of the woodlands that is beautiful and fascinating. Green-blue leaves hold water droplets in a shower, delicate flowers attract pollinators, and the sap of the stems and roots is a brilliant orange, giving the plant its name.
Detail of the flower.
The diversity of a prairie flowers from a photo taken at a restoration in late summer.
A nest in the branches of an orchard tree.
Fall colors in a mixed species woodland.
A birdnest nestled into the stems and leaves of a vine.
Fall Art Tour is an amazing multi-community event in the Driftless Region of southern Wisconsin where artists' studios are open, with the artists often demonstrating their techniques and methods. Since artists up and down the street and across the street are on the tour, visitors to my gallery on that weekend expect me to be working on something more interesting than maybe putting ear wires onto beaded earrings or finishing the ends on knitted scarves or repolishing the silver jewelry. So most years, I demonstrate the process of making my felted landscapes. In 2013, the subjects were a yellow aspen forest, from a photo my son in Tucson, AZ had taken a couple weeks earlier, a pear branch from a photograph I had used as inspiration for a multi-pane block print I had completed the previous week, and a Jack-In-The-Pulpit from photograph I had been using to complete artwork for another larger block print. This is the status of the landscapes at the end of the Fall Art Tour event; they all still need to be detailed and squared up and framed.
