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Boat felt art | Irish seascape painting of Galway Hooker boats in the harbour at sunset, Kinvara, Ireland
As we watched the sun set, our day was coming to an end. Kids in bed, it was our time to relax.
The Galway Hooker boats gently breezed across the water for the final time before nightfall. Their red sails gleaming in the light of the fading sun. In the dusk, the sun setting, the moon took up it’s position to light up the night sky.
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Kinvara, on the wild atlantic way, is a sea port village in the southwest of County Galway, Ireland. And in Kinvara they hold a Cruinniunam Bad Festival to celebrate the Galway Hooker boat with their beautiful red sails every year. So we were very lucky to be in Kinvara at the time of the festival a few years ago. Especially as our apartment over looked the harbour so we had a fantastic view of all the Galway Hooker boat races.
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The original boat felt art measures approximately 29cm (H) x 30cm (W).
The mounted artwork measures approximately 45.5cm x 45.5cm.
Unframed:- The final felt landscape painting is attached to a piece of acid free mount board and posted out ready for you to take to a framer to choose the frame.
*Colours may vary slightly from the photographed work.
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I can arrange for the artwork to be framed (UK only) and posted out to you. Please choose from the two options available. Framing times will vary dependig on how busy my framer is at the time.
*Colours may vary slightly from the photographed work.
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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 as seen then posted out ready for you to take to a framer to choose the frame.
Click here to read more about the process.
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UK 1st Class tracked and signed for | International tracked and signed for.
£470.00
1 in stock
