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Needle Felted Succulents with The Pale Rook

Enjoy a meditative day making needle felted succulents with world famous textile artist and doll maker Johanna Flanagan, aka The Pale Rook, on 29th March at Central Scotland School of Craft!

Needle Felted Succulents with The Pale Rook

About Needle Felted Succulents with The Pale Rook

Join us for a meditative day making needle felted succulents with world famous textile artist and doll maker Johanna Flanagan, aka The Pale Rook. We’ll be exploring the forms and textures of aloes and agave’s, sedums and sempervivums, to create beautiful succulent sculptures. You’ll learn how to build a sculpted three dimensional form in wool, work around a wire armature and add texture and detail to your work.

Felting is the oldest textile construction method in human history, and has been used for home building, clothing, homeware, and sculpture for thousands of years throughout the world. In this workshop we will explore the three dimensional possibilities of needle felted wool, beginning with simple leaf forms and progressing to more complex structures and embellishments to make a unique succulent sculpture.

About Your Tutor
Johanna Flanagan is a Scottish doll maker, costumiere and teacher. She studied Constructed Textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone college, then an MA in Fashion at the Royal College of Art. Throughout a career that meandered from catwalk, to film, to theatre, to historical costuming, Johanna always made dolls in secret, never really taking them seriously until her mid thirties when she decided to bring them out of the shadows.

Johanna’s work is heavily influenced by the natural world, themes of decay and restoration, and is a deeply personal reflection of her own emotional world. Her design approach is often led by intuition and an instinctive response to materials and subject matter.

Johanna continues to work internationally in collaboration with fashion designers, artists, dancers and performers. She has been teaching and lecturing in colleges, art schools and museums for fourteen years, as well as teaching independently.

No previous textile or felting experience is necessary and all equipment and materials are provided. Please bring a cushion, blanket or towel with you to rest your felting pad on while we work. This will also provide support for your wrists or arms if you have any mobility issues.

Throughout the workshop we will be using ethically sourced sheeps’ wool. Typically we use leather finger guards while felting and although we will be offering a vegan alternative to the leather guards, please keep in mind that we will not be able to work with a vegan alternative to wool.

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