Sculptural Felt Handmade Art Vessels - ONE SOLD
By Jennie Loader
British wool, wet felted: 3D vessel forms
Natural merino/Natural merino with silk fibres/Blue-faced Leicester wool and yarn
Original artworks
Two sizes:
Diameter 17cm - £85
Diameter 12cm - £55
Jennie's new Sculptural Vessels range, created through traditional methods and careful hand-moulding of the felt, transforms sheep wool into stylish felt pots, creating a very tactile and natural decorative object that is both beautiful and authentic, each one being entirely unique.
The wool used is usually natural merino but, in some cases, she also blends in silk fibres or uses British sheep wool including Blue-faced Leicester, giving each pot its own distinctive identiy and density.
Created exclusively for Spencer House Gallery from Summer 2024, their clever shapes and contours suggest organic forms or hint at landscape or floral features in their patternation or colours.
ABOUT JENNIE LOADER
Jennie is fascinated by natural processes that transform materials - whether she's using sunshine to print botanical plant forms or turning soft, loose wool fibres into textile artworks. Each piece is an adventure where she explores new possibilities and develops her own individual style.
Her newly-emerging felt collection, Peat Below, Sky Above, is a three-tier exploration of her local Somerset Levels, celebrating the deep, dark peat soil, above which the sweeping patchwork of fields and wetland nature reserves meet the expanse of every-changing sky. The three tiers are made of British Shetland wool, plus a mixture of hand-dyed silk fabric and fibres, plant fibres such as soya, cotton and flax, wool locks and hand-spun yarn.
Her Sheep on the Land range transforms British sheep wool into felt vessels, celebrating and championing the source wool and including cleaned but unprocessed locks directly from a fleece. We call them her Vesuvius pots!
Meanwhile, in her cyanotype prints, the beautiful forms of native British plant life are captured using this Victorian manipulated photographic process. Paper or textile is coated with light-sensitive material and, using just sunlight, beautiful silhouettes and transparent dappling results.