Exhibition of beautiful felt art in East Yorkshire

Recently I chanced upon an exhibition at Burton Constable Hall wherein local artist Jane Higgins exhibited her felt art. This art is apparently made using the wet felt technique where woollen fibres are moulded together into colourful pictures using just water and soap.

This technique for making art is quite expressive and certainly creates art which is tactile and has what oil painters would call impasto.

Jane’s work often shows us crisp winter scenes no doubt inspired by the environment of East Yorkshire during the colder months.

In this work we see the fertility and bounteous summer fruits of the county.

Overall felt art is evidently a way to make interesting and unusual works of art which add some colour and fascination to our surroundings.