Heartfelt 2025, celebrating 25 years of felt artistry by Andrea Hunter
Old School Art Gallery in Muker
From Saturday 24th May to Saturday 5th July 2025, the Old School Art Gallery in Muker
will be hosting Heartfelt 2025, celebrating 25 years of felt artistry by Andrea Hunter.
Rather than work in oils or watercolours, Andrea “paints” with wool, positioning and layering the fibres
to build up the picture, before applying the felting process. As the wool is rolled and the fibres knit together,
some secret alchemy occurs, infusing the picture with Andrea’s heartfelt, deep-rooted awareness and passion for
the land and the Dales way of life.
The results, when the felt is unrolled and the picture revealed, are wonderfully evocative, atmospheric impressions of
The Dales landscape, with an inner quality, subtlety, texture and impression of movement that perfectly conjure up
the wild and rugged reality of Wensleydale and Swaledale.
Heartfelt 2025 will showcase ten of Andrea’s original felt work, both in monochrome and colour, specially created for the exhibition.
“meadow”
Felt Pictures that capture the warmth of the meadow.
Exhibited at the Focus On Felt Studio, Hardraw. DL8 3LZ
Exhibition times:
Open by appointment at all other times, please call 01969 667644.
Inspired by the publication of “meadow” (see below) Andrea has created an atmospheric collection
of felt pictures which will be exhibited at her studio.
“meadow"
This is a truly superb book celebrating the beauty and wonder of the meadow.
The photographs, by Jim Holden, are breathtakingly beautiful.
Iain Parkinson is the Living Collections and Conservation Manager at Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in the Sussex High Weald.
He has brought together over 30 personal accounts of meadows and features contributions from a wide range of people whose work, creativity
and purpose are linked by a passion for our heritage meadows.
Andrea is very proud to be one of the featured artist.
The “meadow” is available from the Focus On Felt Studio, The Kew Shop and Amazon.
Environmental impact... helping our environment.
Wool is a renewable, sustainable fibre and is classified as an eco-textile.
It is an environmentally friendly, natural, recyclable material.
Wool fleece is hard wearing and has excellent thermal properties.
Natural wool fibres are biodegradable and can be recycled when they have outlived their original use.