Workshop
Join me in October for a full days workshop in the lovely setting of Ringford near Kirkcudbright. We shall spend the day learning how to build sea or landscapes or you can choose a Christmas scene! Absolutely no experience necessary, I will guide you through the wet...
Workshop
An opportunity to join me in Glentrool for an afternoon of fun feltmaking! There are 10 places and 2 currently available as of 8.8.19, to book please call me on the number on the poster! No experience necessary.
Scottish Felters Summer School Dunblane
Feeling very inspired by my visit to Dunblane to teach at Scottish Felters Summer School, I loved working with these creative ladies! some were first time felters and others were new to this process having experience in other forms of felting. Thank you to each of you...
Outwitting the Fish footstool
Very excited to be extending my creativity and turning some of my abstract felting into footstools! This one is based on one of my mixed media drawings and I felted a piece with many textures from different media. Thank you to Jenny for a sterling job in making the...
Serenity
Serenity (SOLD)This felt painting was created to reflect the serenity of some of the most beautiful beaches on the Mull of Galloway. After laying out and setting down it went straight onto the Gentle Roller machine during my demonstration at Spring Fling. Contains...
Workshop
Today, I had four lovely ladies for a days workshop on the theme of ‘seascapes’. Creating a base of merino fibres with layers of different colours they used additional embellishments to add texture, sheen and depth to their creations. Finally wetting out and rolling...
Bloom
Getting ready for Spring Fling this weekend.... Some new work finished today!‘Bloom’ -14 x 14 inch framed £125 plus UK pp. All wet felted using merino fibre, mulberry silks, hand dyed prefelts and Liberty silk sheets and finished with free stitching.
Mull Night
‘Mull Night’ wet felted free stitched fibre painting 12.5 x 12.5 inch framed. £95 plus UK ppThis piece is based on the moonlight colours On the sea and grasses around our local beaches here on the Mull of Galloway!
Seaspice
‘Seaspice’ wet felted free stitched fibre painting 12.5 x 12.5 inch framed. £105 plus UK ppThis piece is based on the rich colours I have experienced around our local beaches here on the Mull of Galloway!
Workshop
What an amazing workshop at my studio on 10th April 2019. Meg, Anna and Catherine came back for a full day this year after doing a half day last year! Catherine brought some beautiful pieces of felt she had made in between to show me which were stunning! Here, Meg...
Gawn Fishing
‘Gawn Fishing’ - new collection of cards @ £5 each and sketchbooks A5 with reuseable covers £30 each plus UK pp. A series of greeting cards and three sketchbooks A5 - ‘Gawn Fishing’ dedicated to my late father who was a serious fisherman in his youth. I like the fun...
In the Breeze
SOLD ‘In the Breeze’ - wet felted and free stitched felt painting of a scene from overlooking Luce Bay on the Rhins of Galloway. Size 12 x 12 framed £125 plus UK pp.
Spring themed art
I loved making these two little Felt pictures from some photos I took last year of the hedgerows on the Mull of Galloway! ‘Blubell Breeze’ and ‘Hedgerow’ two wet felted and free stitched pictures 8 x 8 inch framed £45 each plus UK pp
Workshops
In my studio on the beautiful Mull of Galloway I am offering a number of workshops. Are you visiting our stunning area for your holiday this year? Feltmaking is a relaxing and therapeutic medium, it’s soft and colourful, meditative and addictive. It’s a joy to do....
Spring Fling
www.spring-fling.co.uk/portfolio-posts/01-Linda-Irving/ Please take a look at all the fabulous artists taking part in Spring Fling this year, very proud to be one of three artists selected in the Rhins of Galloway! I will have the very talented Jane Fraser at my...
Vera
‘Vera’ - wet felted, nuno felted with Liberty silk, mulberry silks, prefelts, free stitched and beaded. 12 x 12 inch framed £95 plus UK pp by Linda Irving Felt Artist
Spring
‘Spring’ - wet felted, nuno felted with Liberty silk, mulberry silks, prefelts, free stitched and beaded. 12 x 12 inch framed £95 plus UK pp by Linda Irving Felt Artist
Handwarmers/cuffs
‘Red Botanic’ - Still feeling feel cosy! The red pair of handwarmers have added sheet of Liberty print silk nuno felted in to the cuff, see reverse photo, as well as some prefelt leaves made prominent by hand embroidery. The fibre is merino, some drum carded with...
Handwarmers/cuffs
Two more sets of merino wet felted handwarmers with added embellishments such as banana fibres, wooden yarn, mulberry silks, handmade prefelts and Liberty print fine silks. Each pair is hand beaded and hand embroidered to add detail £22. Each pair plus £3.50 UK pp.
Felted neck warmers/scarves
Ive had great fun!! Hand felted with additions of silk hankies, liberty silk pieces and mulberry silk fibres, each scarf is individually made with accompanying flower detail hand beaded with a large press stud closure for easy wearing. Each one is £42 plus £3.50 pp UK...
Greeting Cards
Felted cards, needlefelted, wet felted and machine stitched then beaded! Seven rock pools and 2 seascapes and one blue heart! £6 each card size 6” square.
Alzheimer Scotland Community Felt Project
This amazing project was funded by Alzheimer Scotland and a private anonymous donation. I was able to offer eight people (service users and carers) a four week tutored project to produce these amazing framed felt pictures! Constructed over four weeks, the...
Scottish Felters Summer School
From 5th To 10th August 2019 the Scottish Felters Summer School is taking place in Braeport Community Centre, Dunblane, Sterlingshire. There is a wide range of creative workshops by different tutors with the overall theme for the week being 'Innovation and...
Magazine article
I am really pleased to have been asked to be in the December Issue of Felt Matters, the magazine of International Felt Makers Association! Thank you to everyone at the magazine for support and guidance and the chance to tell a little of my creative life story to date...
Hare
This piece was made last year and bought by a lovely gentleman for his beautiful wife to celebrate a special occasion! It’s approx 2ft square and wet felted with over stitching. I really loved making this!
Workshop
Emer, Alisa, Chrissy, Laurie and Marie, .....what a fabulous day we had creating and felting these beautiful pictures! All first time Felt makers, this group of friends have an amazing eye for colour and detail and ooze creativity! Whilst three ladies used photos...
Scottish Felters Summer School
I am very excited and honoured to be invited to teach at the Scottish Felters Summer School next year! This is a week long festival of creative workshops led by tutors from as far as America! I will be teaching a day workshop, similar to the photo here of a recent...
Flying Santa
This ‘Flying Santa’ is a festive sculpture created over the course of 24 hours (in stages!) labour! The lovely Jeannette Hadley made Santa himself to my spec to balance on the basket of the balloon! The balloon itself is made of berschaffe fibre, a courser more...
Commission
Had a wonderful commission from Alex for a scene of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse with a cheeky mole peeking out of the wild flowers! I loved the challenge of making and sewing the detail into this, it had a lovely story behind it and is to be a gift for a friend of...
Workshop
I had such a lovely day with Morven who had made little Christmas stockings at home which she was not entirely happy with (see two little stockings between yellow and blue new ones!) so she booked in for a days felt making. We redesigned the resist and cut the shape...
Workshop
These wonderful ladies tried their very creative hands with wet felting for the first time. Dorothy, Lauren and Kirsty made beautiful seascapes using merino fibres, mulberry silks, sari silks, nepps and art yarns in multiple layers. We had a great workshop, thank you...
“For Those in Peril”
SOLD “For Those in Peril” - wet felted, free stitched and hand beaded felt painting size 12 x 8 inches framed £68 plus pp
Flanders Field
SOLD and off to France! Flanders Field - wet felted, free stitched and hand embroidered size 11 x 8 inch framed £68 plus pp
Seasonal Cards
Seasonal printed cards - ‘Remember’ from the original felted picture shown in photo. £3 each or 4 for £10 plus pp
Seasonal cards
Seasonal printed cards - ‘Very Autumn Berry’ from the original felted picture shown in photo. £3 each or 4 for £10 plus pp
Felted Flowers
WORKSHOP - this was a lovely day spent with Barbara in a one to one workshop. She had returned for her third workshop to update her skills in flower making and produced this wire wrapped stemmed flower with double layer of wet felted petals! She is going to bead and...