Bamburgh Painting of the sand dunes in Northumberland. Original felt art by felt artist Janine Jacques.

“Dunes at Bamburgh“.

As you walk over the sand dunes in August, towards the beach you can see these pink flowers with Bamburgh Castle as a back drop in the distance. As a family we love Northumberland and in particular Bamburgh beach. The castle is such an iconic landmark that you can see for miles around and from many different locations.

I have hand sewn lots of embroidery into the foreground to create the pink flowers on the dunes.

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Bamburgh Painting | Framed

Framed size: 49.5 x 49.5cm (h x w)

*Colours may vary slightly from the photographed work.

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The Process

Drawing on my degree in Fine Art, I use merino wool in lots of different colours (as you would tubes of paint) and lay out the loose fibres of different coloured wool onto my base (as you would paint on canvas).

Once finished the next stage is to make these loose fibres of wool stick together using the ‘wet felting’ technique to make the wool painting into a piece of felt. You do this by adding hot soapy water and friction. The hot water opens up the wools scales and the friction (rubbing/rolling) binds them together. During this process the wool shrinks by about 15-20% and you end up with one piece of felt material.

Once the felted picture is dry I needle felt into the piece to sharpen some of the details.

The final felt art is attached to a piece of acid free mount board and mounted and framed as seen.

Click here to read more about the process.

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Postage

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