WENSLEYDALE artist Andrea Hunter celebrates ten years of using the traditional technique of felting as an artistic medium in her A Heartfelt Landscape exhibition at Hornseys gallery, Kirkgate, Ripon.
Her experiences from her early and informative years spent on a working sheep farm manifest themselves in her atmospheric depictions of sheep, cattle, trees and windswept landscapes.
“The choice of wool as her working medium emphasises her belief in its multitude of uses as a natural material alongside the rugged beauty of the surroundings in which her family, and the families of many others in her community, have raised sheep over generations,” says gallery director Daniel Hornsey.
Her work is primarily metaphorical and forever progressing. “My journey is ongoing, winding through new ways of seeing and old ways of understanding; the new speech of ideas and the old silence of knowing – but always engaging with the wild and beautiful places of home,” she says.
A Heartfelt Landscape is on show until October 8 and coincides with the publishing of Andrea’s book of the same title.
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