GROUP CLASSES: below is a list of upcoming workshops open to public enrolment. Bookings are through the venue listed. If you have a group of people who want to learn a particular aspect of feltmaking or sculpture please get in touch here.

I have been teaching feltmaking and sculpture (found object assemblage) since 1994. This has included workshops within High Schools and Primary Schools, for private community groups as well as teaching courses at University level and supervising MFA students. I am currently completing a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. 
 

WORKSHOPS 2025


FRANCE _ MONTBRUN-BOCAGE
28/29/30 August 2025
1/2/3 September 2025

atelierdubocage31@gmail.com

www.feutreformationfrance.com

find out more here.

Felt as Substance 28/29/30 August 2025
This is a workshop of exploration looking at wool fibres and felt from the point of view of being a substance for sculpture as opposed to a textile. Learn the skill of skin-felting to make hollow sculptural felt forms directly by the hand, without the use of a plastic resist. This method allows for complex shapes to be modelled in 3 dimensions. This class will also explore the ways that numerous substances interact with felted forms. Apply gold leaf, plaster, wax, putty, tar, and other substances to felt forms that can transform that felted shape into an object of structural strength, intrigue, and beauty. This workshop will leave the felt artist with many new ideas for future felt projects.

Design Ideas for Feltmakers 1/2/3 September 2025
How can feltmakers create innovative forms and new designs? This creative workshop begins with playful methods of drawing, doodling and collage on paper. Methods of collage (cutting, re-joining and chance occurrence) can be an interesting way to develop resist designs that will then be used to make felt shapes. Initial inspiration will be drawn from looking at everyday objects. Anita will then lead students through fun ways to develop a three-dimensional shape in felt from two-dimensional drawings. The intricacies of calculating and planning a unique resist shape will be shared with each student according to their own project as it evolves. Layering, slotting, making holes in, or twisting the resist will be explored as ways of creating unusual felt sculptures, vessels or hats if you prefer. Bored of making felt from the same resist shapes? Then this class will give you the skills for a lifetime of new ones.

Please note you do not need to have any drawing experience for this class just a willing spirit. It is a feltmaking class – not a drawing class. The course is aimed at people who already have basic skills in feltmaking, that know how to use a resist and want to discover how to develop your own designs in feltmaking.



BELGIUM - ESSEN
Vrouw Wolle Vilt Academie 
Kapelstraat 81 
B-2910 Essen ~ België

www.vrouwwolle.be

www.viltacademie.be

Felt as Substance _ 21/22 August 2025 
Design Ideas for Feltmakers _23/24/25 August 2025

Felt as Substance _ 21/22 August 2025 
This is a workshop of exploration looking at wool fibres and felt from the point of view of being a substance for sculpture as opposed to a textile. Learn the skill of skin-felting to make hollow sculptural felt forms directly by the hand, without the use of a plastic resist. This method allows for complex shapes to be modelled in 3 dimensions. This class will also explore the ways that numerous substances interact with felted forms. Apply gold leaf, plaster, wax, putty, tar, and other substances to felt forms that can transform that felted shape into an object of structural strength, intrigue, and beauty. This workshop will leave the felt artist with many new ideas for future felt projects.

Design Ideas for Feltmakers _23/24/25 August 2025
How can feltmakers create innovative forms and new designs? This creative workshop begins with playful methods of drawing, doodling and collage on paper. Methods of collage (cutting, re-joining and chance occurrence) can be an interesting way to develop resist designs that will then be used to make felt shapes. Initial inspiration will be drawn from looking at everyday objects. Anita will then lead students through fun ways to develop a three-dimensional shape in felt from two-dimensional drawings. The intricacies of calculating and planning a unique resist shape will be shared with each student according to their own project as it evolves. Layering, slotting, making holes in, or twisting the resist will be explored as ways of creating unusual felt sculptures, vessels or hats if you prefer. Bored of making felt from the same resist shapes? Then this class will give you the skills for a lifetime of new ones.

Please note you do not need to have any drawing experience for this class just a willing spirit. It is a feltmaking class – not a drawing class. The course is aimed at people who already have basic skills in feltmaking, that know how to use a resist and want to discover how to develop your own designs in feltmaking.

 

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GROUP CLASSES: below is a list of upcoming workshops open to public enrolment. Bookings are through the venue listed. If you have a group of people who want to learn a particular aspect of feltmaking or sculpture please get in touch here.

I have been teaching feltmaking and sculpture (found object assemblage) since 1994. This has included workshops within High Schools and Primary Schools, for private community groups as well as teaching courses at University level and supervising MFA students. I am currently completing a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. 
 

WORKSHOPS 2025


FRANCE _ MONTBRUN-BOCAGE
28/29/30 August 2025
1/2/3 September 2025

atelierdubocage31@gmail.com

www.feutreformationfrance.com

find out more here.

Felt as Substance 28/29/30 August 2025
This is a workshop of exploration looking at wool fibres and felt from the point of view of being a substance for sculpture as opposed to a textile. Learn the skill of skin-felting to make hollow sculptural felt forms directly by the hand, without the use of a plastic resist. This method allows for complex shapes to be modelled in 3 dimensions. This class will also explore the ways that numerous substances interact with felted forms. Apply gold leaf, plaster, wax, putty, tar, and other substances to felt forms that can transform that felted shape into an object of structural strength, intrigue, and beauty. This workshop will leave the felt artist with many new ideas for future felt projects.

Design Ideas for Feltmakers 1/2/3 September 2025
How can feltmakers create innovative forms and new designs? This creative workshop begins with playful methods of drawing, doodling and collage on paper. Methods of collage (cutting, re-joining and chance occurrence) can be an interesting way to develop resist designs that will then be used to make felt shapes. Initial inspiration will be drawn from looking at everyday objects. Anita will then lead students through fun ways to develop a three-dimensional shape in felt from two-dimensional drawings. The intricacies of calculating and planning a unique resist shape will be shared with each student according to their own project as it evolves. Layering, slotting, making holes in, or twisting the resist will be explored as ways of creating unusual felt sculptures, vessels or hats if you prefer. Bored of making felt from the same resist shapes? Then this class will give you the skills for a lifetime of new ones.

Please note you do not need to have any drawing experience for this class just a willing spirit. It is a feltmaking class – not a drawing class. The course is aimed at people who already have basic skills in feltmaking, that know how to use a resist and want to discover how to develop your own designs in feltmaking.



BELGIUM - ESSEN
Vrouw Wolle Vilt Academie 
Kapelstraat 81 
B-2910 Essen ~ België

www.vrouwwolle.be

www.viltacademie.be

Felt as Substance _ 21/22 August 2025 
Design Ideas for Feltmakers _23/24/25 August 2025

Felt as Substance _ 21/22 August 2025 
This is a workshop of exploration looking at wool fibres and felt from the point of view of being a substance for sculpture as opposed to a textile. Learn the skill of skin-felting to make hollow sculptural felt forms directly by the hand, without the use of a plastic resist. This method allows for complex shapes to be modelled in 3 dimensions. This class will also explore the ways that numerous substances interact with felted forms. Apply gold leaf, plaster, wax, putty, tar, and other substances to felt forms that can transform that felted shape into an object of structural strength, intrigue, and beauty. This workshop will leave the felt artist with many new ideas for future felt projects.

Design Ideas for Feltmakers _23/24/25 August 2025
How can feltmakers create innovative forms and new designs? This creative workshop begins with playful methods of drawing, doodling and collage on paper. Methods of collage (cutting, re-joining and chance occurrence) can be an interesting way to develop resist designs that will then be used to make felt shapes. Initial inspiration will be drawn from looking at everyday objects. Anita will then lead students through fun ways to develop a three-dimensional shape in felt from two-dimensional drawings. The intricacies of calculating and planning a unique resist shape will be shared with each student according to their own project as it evolves. Layering, slotting, making holes in, or twisting the resist will be explored as ways of creating unusual felt sculptures, vessels or hats if you prefer. Bored of making felt from the same resist shapes? Then this class will give you the skills for a lifetime of new ones.

Please note you do not need to have any drawing experience for this class just a willing spirit. It is a feltmaking class – not a drawing class. The course is aimed at people who already have basic skills in feltmaking, that know how to use a resist and want to discover how to develop your own designs in feltmaking.

 

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