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Spring themed art SOLD
I loved making these two little Felt pictures from some photos I took last year of the hedgerows on the Mull of Galloway! ‘Blubell Breeze’ and ‘Hedgerow’ two wet felted and free stitched pictures 8 x 8 inch framed £45 each plus UK pp
Workshops
In my studio on the beautiful Mull of Galloway I am offering a number of workshops. Are you visiting our stunning area for your holiday this year? Feltmaking is a relaxing and therapeutic medium, it’s soft and colourful, meditative and addictive. It’s a joy to do....
‘Bottoms Up!’- SOLD
‘Bottoms Up!’ - My brand new picture for the Caerlaverock Wetland Centre exhibition starting 10th March 2019. Size 32 x 17 inch framed wet felted, free stitched and appliquéd, the swans are 3D! Price on application.
Spring Fling – SOLD
www.spring-fling.co.uk/portfolio-posts/01-Linda-Irving/Please take a look at all the fabulous artists taking part in Spring Fling this year, very proud to be one of three artists selected in the Rhins of Galloway! I will have the very talented Jane Fraser at my studio...
Vera
‘Vera’ - wet felted, nuno felted with Liberty silk, mulberry silks, prefelts, free stitched and beaded. 12 x 12 inch framed £95 plus UK pp by Linda Irving Felt Artist
Spring – SOLD
‘Spring’ - wet felted, nuno felted with Liberty silk, mulberry silks, prefelts, free stitched and beaded. 12 x 12 inch framed £95 plus UK pp by Linda Irving Felt Artist
Felty Cards
Felted cards, three of abstract drystone walls and sea themed grasses. Wet felted, machine free stitched. Can be used in miniature frames as cards are 6 x 6 inches, £6 each plus UK pp.
Handwarmers/cuffs -SOLD
‘Red Botanic’ - Still feeling feel cosy! The red pair of handwarmers have added sheet of Liberty print silk nuno felted in to the cuff, see reverse photo, as well as some prefelt leaves made prominent by hand embroidery. The fibre is merino, some drum carded with...
Handwarmers/cuffs – SOLD
Two more sets of merino wet felted handwarmers with added embellishments such as banana fibres, wooden yarn, mulberry silks, handmade prefelts and Liberty print fine silks. Each pair is hand beaded and hand embroidered to add detail £22. Each pair plus £3.50 UK pp.
Handwarmers/cuffs – SOLD
Wet felted with mulberry silks, silk hankies and individually hand beaded these handwarmers/cuffs allow you to keep cosy with comfort whilst still being able to use your hands! £22 each plus £3.50 UK pp. Please email me to order using the title on the picture!
Felted neck warmers/scarves
Ive had great fun!! Hand felted with additions of silk hankies, liberty silk pieces and mulberry silk fibres, each scarf is individually made with accompanying flower detail hand beaded with a large press stud closure for easy wearing. Each one is £42 plus £3.50 pp UK...
Greeting Cards
Felted cards, needlefelted, wet felted and machine stitched then beaded! Seven rock pools and 2 seascapes and one blue heart! £6 each card size 6” square.
Alzheimer Scotland Community Felt Project
This amazing project was funded by Alzheimer Scotland and a private anonymous donation. I was able to offer eight people (service users and carers) a four week tutored project to produce these amazing framed felt pictures! Constructed over four weeks, the...
Scottish Felters Summer School
From 5th To 10th August 2019 the Scottish Felters Summer School is taking place in Braeport Community Centre, Dunblane, Sterlingshire. There is a wide range of creative workshops by different tutors with the overall theme for the week being 'Innovation and...
Magazine article
I am really pleased to have been asked to be in the December Issue of Felt Matters, the magazine of International Felt Makers Association! Thank you to everyone at the magazine for support and guidance and the chance to tell a little of my creative life story to date...
Hare
This piece was made last year and bought by a lovely gentleman for his beautiful wife to celebrate a special occasion! It’s approx 2ft square and wet felted with over stitching. I really loved making this!
Workshop
Emer, Alisa, Chrissy, Laurie and Marie, .....what a fabulous day we had creating and felting these beautiful pictures! All first time Felt makers, this group of friends have an amazing eye for colour and detail and ooze creativity! Whilst three ladies used photos...
Scottish Felters Summer School
I am very excited and honoured to be invited to teach at the Scottish Felters Summer School next year! This is a week long festival of creative workshops led by tutors from as far as America! I will be teaching a day workshop, similar to the photo here of a recent...
Flying Santa
This ‘Flying Santa’ is a festive sculpture created over the course of 24 hours (in stages!) labour! The lovely Jeannette Hadley made Santa himself to my spec to balance on the basket of the balloon! The balloon itself is made of berschaffe fibre, a courser more...
Commission
Had a wonderful commission from Alex for a scene of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse with a cheeky mole peeking out of the wild flowers! I loved the challenge of making and sewing the detail into this, it had a lovely story behind it and is to be a gift for a friend of...
Workshop
I had such a lovely day with Morven who had made little Christmas stockings at home which she was not entirely happy with (see two little stockings between yellow and blue new ones!) so she booked in for a days felt making. We redesigned the resist and cut the shape...
Workshop
These wonderful ladies tried their very creative hands with wet felting for the first time. Dorothy, Lauren and Kirsty made beautiful seascapes using merino fibres, mulberry silks, sari silks, nepps and art yarns in multiple layers. We had a great workshop, thank you...
“For Those in Peril”
SOLD “For Those in Peril” - wet felted, free stitched and hand beaded felt painting size 12 x 8 inches framed £68 plus pp
Flanders Field
SOLD and off to France! Flanders Field - wet felted, free stitched and hand embroidered size 11 x 8 inch framed £68 plus pp
Seasonal Cards
Seasonal printed cards - ‘Remember’ from the original felted picture shown in photo. £3 each or 4 for £10 plus pp
Seasonal cards
Seasonal printed cards - ‘Very Autumn Berry’ from the original felted picture shown in photo. £3 each or 4 for £10 plus pp
Peace
SOLD. 2.11.18 'Peace' - wet felted, free stitched and beaded size 8 inch square- £58 plus £6 UK pp
Felted Flowers
WORKSHOP - this was a lovely day spent with Barbara in a one to one workshop. She had returned for her third workshop to update her skills in flower making and produced this wire wrapped stemmed flower with double layer of wet felted petals! She is going to bead and...
Remember – SOLD
‘Remember’ - wet felted, free stitched and beaded, size 8 inch framed £58 plus UK pp @ £6
Tranquil Sea
SOLD ‘Tranquil Sea’ - wet felted and embellished with free stitching, size 12.5 inch framed - £145 plus UK pp by Linda Irving Felt Artist.
Lochinch Castle Charity Christmas Fair
Lochinch Castle Charity Christmas Fair9th & 10th NovemberLochinch Castle! A beautiful setting, I will have felt art and some Christmas gift ideas for those creatives in your life! Look at my new wet felting kits!
Almost as Nature Intended
"Almost as Nature Intended" joint exhibition 10th March to 27th April 2019Caerlaverock Wetlands Centre”Almost as Nature Intended - Linda Irving and Jane Fraser, two Rhins of Galloway based artists who have embraced natural media to create stunning artworks in 2 and...
Very Autumn Berry
‘Very Autumn Berry- wet felted and free stitched with added mulberry silks this piece was inspired by the beautiful hedgerows of Lincolnshire. Size approx 14 inch framed - £145 plus uk pp.
Wigtown Book Festival Winter Kist
This year's Winter Kist took place in the County Buildings, Wigtown on 24th – 25th November.This years Winter Kist was a great event, I really enjoyed the eclectic mix of artis and artisans with lots of beautiful gifts and delicious food and drinks! They reported...
Stranraer Oyster Festival 2019
Stranraer Oyster Festival 13-15 September 2019
Felted Flowers
Felted flowers price on application from £7 to £20.