Learn how to make a variety of hand-felted flowers in every shape, size and application imaginable. Using sumptuous fibres and fabrics in a dazzling array of colours, create small flower-inspired sculptures, brooches, pendants, fashions accessories and more. Or use your new-found ‘flower power’ to make whole bunches and fill your favourite vase!
In this exciting (did we mention colourful?) class with renowned felt artist Martien van Zuilen you’ll incorporate both wet and needle felting techniques, learn to create buds and blossoms, petals and stems and how to connect the various components. Simply put: Flower Power Rules.
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.