Dance, dance,with Molly Williams!

In these 4 days we are going to make a free standing wet felted sculpture on a wire armature , 50 cm tall - plinth not included.

Your teacher will be Molly Williams from the UK, a textile artist specialising in figurative felt sculpture. Organization by Rianne Vermeulen.

This is an exciting workshop where you will make a free-standing figure , 50 cm tall. You wil learn a new, energetic wet felted process that has smilarities to sculpting with clay and can be easily adapted to make any shape or form.

On day 1 ;

- you make all the preparations for the sculpture like pre-felt and a information how to make a

sculpture

On day 2;

- you make the skeleton and start to form the sculpture

On day 3 & 4:

- you are going to felt the skin and the decorative skin and at the end of day 4 you have your own sculpture to admire!!

Molly lives in England and works from her studio in the garden, She teaches felt scuptures internationally and online. Molly has been a member of several textile and craft groups and has exhibited her work yearly in London. Contemporary dance and modern and ancient sculpture inform the shapes and movement of her felt sculptures and figurative shapes are a feature of Molly's textile art. She has developed a unique way of wet sculpting wool fibers to make these forms. Her research interest is in Ottoman textiles, costumes and ceramics. She has studied Ottoman costume and design to create replica kaftans and pattern design to be used to print textiles , wall-art and other products

For more about Molly:

* www.mollywilliams.co.uk

* www.textileartist.org

* https://www.facebook.com/mollywilliamsdesigns/

* https://molltwilliams.co.uk/blog/

The workshop is being taught in English. Included is the every day lunch: we will serve fresh coffee, tea, drinks and homemade fresh lunches with farmers bread and several Dutch cheeses.

Your host will be Rianne Vermeulen - FYO feltwear. Please send an e-mail for more information about prices, lodging, registration and payment conditions, to workshopsfiberfusing@gmail.com