Inspired by nature and the beauty of the Irish landscape Nicola Brown creates sculptural pieces, rugs, wallhangings and wearable art using a variety of wet felting techniques.
Nicola started felting in August of 2007 with tutor Carmen Sanchez and since then has attended workshops in Ireland, Germany and Denmark with international artists and feltmakers including Anita Larkin, Mehmet Girgic, Sigrid Bannier, Annette Quentin-Stoll, Lyda Rump and Anna Gunnarsdottir.
Group exhibitions to date include ‘Breaking Out’ at the National Craft Gallery 2008-2009, the ‘Winter/Christmas Exhibition’ at KOZO Studio and Gallery 2008, the Blueprint Exhibition at Eigse 2009, ‘The Nine Stones Artists’ at the Norman Gallery 2009, the Earthworks Exhibition during the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 2009 and ‘Sculpture in Context’ at the National Botanic Gardens September/October 2009.
Nicola is a member of the Crafts Council of Ireland, Feltmakers Ireland, the International Feltmakers Association, the Nine Stones Artists and the South East Textile Group.
Your feltings are beautiful and very inspiring! I love the jewelry. That’s something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time but haven’t quite got around to it. I’d love to see pictures of your wall hanging.
ok Nicola, I am about to embark on an idea that is spinning around in my head. I want to felt several layers say white, gray blue then make slices through the blue layer in a diagonal pattern and then pinch the sliced layers of blue in a pattern and connect the pinches. so as to explose the gray layer.
So with the previous smaller experimental pieces I have TIRED to experiment with slicing and it has yet to work. I CAN snip out slashes with sharp shears…. but can you think of an easier way? I tried a razor blade (xacto) , rotary cuter and nothing seems to penetrate effective enough.
I discovered a bamboo window shade in my backroom that I am planning to use since my available bubble wrap widths are limited.
If you have any suggestions on slicing… I welcome all.
Thank you for your generous compliments.