There are few things more satisfying or invigorating than a hot cup of tea! Join felt artist Martien van Zuilen and make a unique hand-felted tea cosy made to fit your favourite pot. Learn to make seamless felt and, as importantly, to add all manner of design work on the surface of your cosy. Think colour, patterns, beads, loops, textures and more. Think funky, traditional, or jazzy.
You can spruce it up or tone it down – it’s your cosy and you can embellish if you want to. Coffee lovers (think hand-felted plungers) are of course very welcome too!
Martien van Zuilen is widely recognised for her technical excellence and design skills in the medium of handmade felt. Since the late 1980s, she has exhibited her distinctive artworks nationally and internationally. Martien is also one of Australia’s leading felting tutors with an extensive teaching portfolio of national and international workshops at all levels of experience, across a broad range of topics.
She is passionate about the role of the arts in community and counts herself lucky to be able to inspire others about the ‘magic’ of Felt in all its forms.
Based in Perth, WA, Martien has a full-time fibre art studio practice which she combines with her roles as a freelance curator, Convenor of Fibres West Inc. and Creative Program Lead with North Midlands Project. Her work is included in numerous international publications, books, and specialist arts magazines.