Inspiration: Stratigraphy on the way to St Pere de Rodes, Cap de Creus (Costa Brava), Catalonia, Spain. Brown, red, and white layers of stone, with a light coating in places of moss.

Materials: Wet felted using various wool, mixed wool and silk roving, Tencel, and silk “hankies”; then carved.

Description: Approximately 20 cm (8”) high x 16 cm (6”) wide. 

Inspiration: Stratigraphy on the way to St Pere de Rodes, Cap de Creus (Costa Brava), Catalonia, Spain. Carved with deep crevasses and multi-colored mineral veins. 

Materials: Wet- and needle-felted using various types of wool, silk “hankies,” Tencel fibers, yarns; then carved.

Description: Wide-mouthed vessel. Approximately 22 cm (8.5”) high x 17 cm (6.5”) wide. 

Inspiration: The stratigraphy on the way to St Pere de Rodes, Cap de Creus (Costa Brava), Catalonia, Spain.Carved with deep crevasses and multi-colored mineral veins.

Materials:  Wet- and needle-felted using various types of wool, silk “hankies,” Tencel fibers, yarns; then carved.

Description: ide-mouthed vessel. Approximately 22 cm (8.5”) high x 17 cm (6.5”) wide.

Inspiration: A visit to the limestone Grotte de les Oeufs (Cave of the Eggs), located in the Massif-de-la Ste-Baume, near St-Maximin-La-Ste-Baume and very close to Plan d’Aups, Provence, France. The area is strongly associated with Mary Magdalene; the Holy Cave of Ste Baume, in the massif, was purportedly where she lived her last 30 years, sustained by communion wafers and lifted up to the Heavens at least daily. It is now a popular Catholic pilgrimage shrine. The Cave of the Eggs is located in the same massif but is very hard to reach. It has been a pilgrimage site for millennia and is associated with fertility. Inside the vessel are felted eggs.

Materials: Wet-felted with different kinds of wool in layers, yarns, and silk “hankies.” 

Description: Approximately 22 cm (8.5”) high x 17 cm (6.5”) wide. 

Inspiration: A visit to the limestone Grotte de les Oeufs (Cave of the Eggs), located in the Massif-de-la Ste-Baume, near St-Maximin-La-Ste-Baume and very close to Plan d’Aups, Provence, France. The area is strongly associated with Mary Magdalene; the Holy Cave of Ste Baume, in the massif, was purportedly where she lived her last 30 years, sustained by communion wafers and lifted up to the Heavens at least daily. It is now a popular Catholic pilgrimage shrine. The Cave of the Eggs is located in the same massif but is very hard to reach. It has been a pilgrimage site for millennia and is associated with fertility. Inside the vessel are felted eggs. 

Materials: Felted with different kinds of wool in layers, yarns, and silk “hankies.” 

Description: Approximately 26 cm (10”) high x 18 cm (7”) wide. 

Inspiration: A visit to the Hermitage of St-Antoine-de-Galamus, which clings to the side of the Gorges of Galamus. The drive is spectacular. The Hermitage includes several natural limestone caves, one of which is dedicated to Mary Magdalene. It is near the intriguing Mount Bugarach, in the Cathar region of southern France. 

Materials: Felted with different kinds of wool in layers, yearns, and silk “hankies.” 

Description: Approximately 20 cm (8”) high x 17 cm (6.5”) wide. 

Inspiration: Monet paintings.

Materials: Multicolored merino wool, silk “hankies.” 

Description: Approximately 20 cm (8”) high x 16 cm (6”) wide.

Inspiration: Monet paintings.

Materials: Multicolored merino wool, silk “hankies.” 

Description: Approximately 20 cm (8”) high x 16 cm (6”) wide.

Inspiration: Monet paintings.

Materials: Multicolored merino wool, silk “hankies.” 

Description: Approximately 20 cm (8”) high x 16 cm (6”) wide.

Inspiration: Some kind of deep sea creature…. Layers of different colors and kinds of wools, carved and sculpted to form gills and to reveal inner layers. 

Materials: Wensleydale longhair roving, silk sari waste on the inside.

Description: Approximately 20 cm (8”) high x 22 cm (8.5”) wide. 

Inspiration: Hot, fiery colors of coral, though it’s an underwater creature. The inside is a mix of wide stripes of red and yellow.

Materials: Layers of merino batt, mixed merino and silk roving, wool and silk yarn, silk “hankies,” silk gauze. Pocket form around the mouth, and some have inclusions of colored Wensleydale curls.

Description: Approximately 16 cm (6”) high x 18 cm (7”) wide. 

Inspiration: Thinking of deep ocean colors, bright-colored fish, coral….

Materials: Layers of different colors of Strata Batt merino, yarns, silk hankies, etc. Inside, additional inclusion of dyed Wensleydale curls and silk fibers. Carved, sculpted, with intertwining openings at the mouth.

Description: Approximately 23 cm (9”) high x 19 cm (7.5”) wide. 

Inspiration:  Images of volcanic outpourings sizzling into the sea.

Materials: The outside is a fiery red mix of merino and filaments of white silk, cut through to show dark layers of "cooling" minerals. The inside is a multi-colored mix of burnt oranges and blacks and gold and green yarns, creating a variegated surface of rocks and intrusions. Gaping "pockets" and holes around the rim reveal additional layers of complex geology.

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Materials: Wet felted using different layers of colors of merino roving, in layers; beads.

Description: Approximately 15 cm (6”) high x 18 cm (7”) wide. 

Inspiration: Perfect for a color accent and a bit of warmth on a cool day. 
 

Materials: Silk gauze with wisps of wool, silk, yarn, silk or Tencel fibers, threads, etc.

Description: I have much to learn about making felt garments. Since nuno-felted garments (and scarves) shrink approximately 35-50%, creating them takes a large workspace. The silk gauze for one of the capelets was 110” (280 cm) long and 30” (75 cm) wide when I began; the capelet ended up 55” (140 cm) long and 16” (40 cm) wide. 

Inspiration: When I began imagining artwork for “Bone Voyage,” I was immediately transported back in time to my ancestors. I “saw” four figures—two male, two female—emerging out of a vessel that represents the Earth as the World Egg of creation. These four beings are my ancestors of spirit, ancestors who dedicated their lives to the quest for spiritual communion and enlightenment. 

Materials: The vessel is wet-felted from different kinds of wool—Bergschaf natural wool on the outside and grey merinos inside. The egg-yolk smear is a mix of yellow merino wool and white silk fiber. The fully pose-able figures are needle-felted around armatures, using different kinds of wool for bodies, clothing, and hair.

Description: Approximately 14”high x 10” wide. Figures are 6”-9” tall.

Inspiration: I came to Girona from far away, responding to a dream that called me to the Call of Girona to remember the medieval Jews who died here centuries ago. Why me? Although I was not raised Jewish, perhaps my Russian Jewish ancestors were calling me to remember. I contemplated on the name and (if there was one) epigraph on each tombstone as I made the vessel that represents the person.

Materials: Hand-felted North Ronaldsay sheep wool in natural colors, silky Tencel roving, curly Wensleydale locks. Each vessel is approximately 5” in diameter by x 6” in height, but each is distinct in size, shape, and mix of materials.

Description: Each vessel is approximately 5” in diameter by x 6” in height, but each is distinct in size, shape, and mix of materials.