March 10-12 Saar Snoek, Grow and Bloom, Botanical Spatial Forms from Flat Prefelt

March 10-12, 2025

This workshop complements Workshop 1 but can also be followed independently. In this workshop, we will create spatial forms from flat prefelt. Prefelt is a broad concept: essentially, any felt that is not yet fully felted and finished can be considered prefelt.

In this workshop, you will learn more about making prefelt and how to use it to create spatial forms. How do you give it the properties you need? What can you do with it?

The goal of the workshop is to provide you with a fresh perspective, a head full of ideas, and extensive knowledge.

“I use a lot of flat prefelt for botanically inspired work, so I think it would be fun to take ‘grow and bloom’ as a theme. For participants of Workshop 1, you can let something grow or bloom from your sculpture!”

In this workshop, you will learn to:

• Recognize and understand the different stages of felting to gain more control over your process.
• make prefelts with different properties
• create hollow stems and leaves
• How to work with different stages of felting, thick and thin material, shine and texture.
• Work spatially without a resist.
• Various methods to connect materials.
• Let go of expectations and respond to your material.

There will be 8 participants in this workshop.

The materials list for this workshop is available here:

https://www.fionaduthie.com/materials-list-saar-snoek-nature-nurture-exploratory-textural-sculptures-2/

There is a materials fee payable for this workshop here:

https://fionaduthie.myshopify.com/products/3-march-10-12-saar-snoek-grow-and-bloom-botanical-spatial-forms-from-flat-prefelt-copy