Dalmally Station textile workshop- painting with wool

This weekend was a great indulgent two days of looking at textile techniques to achieve 'effects' in felting to create landscapes.

the wet landscape being built up in layers

Wool and feltmaking is often a wild thing, elusive in its nature to conform to its creators conceived image.




This workshop allowed students the time to look at design and technique as the main focus and of course the lovely felting machine did a lot of the physical work.

We began by really looking at not just our subject matter but the way in which each student was comfortable to learn, we pushed many of these boundaries over the two days and much was learned on many levels.

working with pastels

By using pastel chalks and blending them we got an idea of how the combinations of coloured wools would blend together. It was not about drawing but the placing of blocks of colours and a seed of inspiration for the landscape pieces.


The students worked so hard and we all delighted in lunches on the platform with the trains tooting by.


The gift of chocolates by the lovely Dreamtime Studio in Inverarey saw us through the tired moments.

Initial exploratory drawings on the platform to dry

A great weekend and a lovely group, thanks girls.

fine detail of cornflowers

moonlight softly falls

butterfly was created on the embellisher and felted into the landscape 

The hard working students, well done girls

stunning work by Julie, shared learning

Sampling on black felt 'page' how much it intensify the blue range

Soft forms of colour like a watercolour dream

in the soft stage, lovely and free