Fountains Abbey art, Felt Landscape, Buttercups at Fountains Abbey, Framed 49.5 x 49 cm (h x w)

Fountains Abbey art, a felt landscape painting of a North Yorkshire view.

Fountains Abbey art “Buttercups At Fountains Abbey” North Yorkshire.

As a family we love visiting all the National Trust properties but Fountains Abbey is a favourite. Our kids love the wide open spaces, running around, climbing and generally having fun. We have been many times and have lovely memories of Fountains Abbey. The ice cream is also very good.

I took a photo of this view in the summer when they had allowed the buttercups to grown tall into a wild flower meadow in front of the abbey. It was a spectacular view of all the beautiful yellow flowers gleaming and waving in the sunshine.

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Fountains Abbey art | Framed

49.5 x 49 cm (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

UK 1st Class tracked and signed for.

* International tracked and signed for (unframed only or please contact me for a shipping quote framed if you are not in the UK)