Susan Mulcock

Susan is a felt-maker who enjoys exploring a wide range of aspects of felt-making, from the practical and usable in the form of wearable accessories and vessels to more traditional, 2-dimensional, landscape art.  The inspiration for her work is a love of the natural world, its physical, eroded and organic form, dictating the character of a landscape and the light effects that can alter our perception and impressions.

Having worked with wool, drawn and painted landscapes for many years, on discovering felt-making she found an ideal medium to show the depth, colour and texture of her subjects. She has developed a process of laying out individual coloured tufts of dry wool applied like separate brushstrokes. She uses a wet-felting technique with hand-dyed merino wool into which she lays a variety of hand-dyed, toning natural fibres and fabrics . When felted, the piece acquires a different nature, the inlaid materials combining with the wool to produce sometimes unexpected textures and effects, adding shine or relief to the matt wool. These are then machine and hand-embroidered to develop the features that have emerged during the felting process.