Join fibre artist Sarah Richards for a day of needle felting and create your own characterful autumn barn owl .

Sarah will guide you through the process of creating a three-dimensional wool sculpture using specialist barbed needles. You will learn how to build an armature and create the structure of your owl, before gradually building up layers of wool to bring it to life.

Explore how to choose and blend natural, autumnal colours, shape and pose your sculpture, and add the fine details and distinctive features that give a barn owl its character.

By the end of the workshop, you will have created your own 3D needle-felted barn owl to take home, along with a greater understanding of the craft and techniques of needle felting.

Tutor: Sarah Richards
Date & Time: Saturday 3rd October, 10am - 4pm
Venue: Chisel Studio, New Brewery Arts
Price: £95 (£0.00 VAT)

You are welcome to bring a lidded bottle of water with you but we kindly ask that you do not bring food into the studio.

Refreshments are available at our on-site café Blend until 4pm.

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Who is this workshop for?
This class is suitable for beginners and intermediate.

Please note that this workshop is for those aged 18 and over.

What you will need:
All materials and equipment are provided.

Meet Your Tutor - sarah richards

Sarah is a fibre artist, designer, maker and tutor; based in the Cotswolds. She combines her love of teaching with a passion for natural fibres; and offers workshops that tap into the therapeutic and mindful benefits of creating with wool.

Sarah discovered needle felting over 15 years ago, and is still finding new things to make, and new techniques to try. Felting offers endless opportunities to sculpt, decorate and embellish; and each and every object she or her students create is unique.

Working with fibre usually throws up surprises, is sometimes challenging, but always rewarding. Inspiration comes from the natural world and particularly its colours: as wool takes dye so easily, it is the ‘paint’ on a felter’s palette. The variety offered by this medium is also very pleasing: different fibres give particular effects; with wool locks and curls bringing texture and form to both 2D and 3D pieces.

Sarah loves to combine mixed media elements into her work, sometimes repurposing vintage and recycled materials and fabrics.