I wrote on another page about my experience on a residency which transformed the relationship between my drawing practice and my textile practice. The piece in this photograph is the first large scale outcome: In Arthog Bog, 2026: wool fibre, fabric, thread; wetfelting; 220cm x 165cm.

I wrote earlier that:

When I think about being immersed in a place or space, I often imagine that feeling translated into felt, into something you literally walk into or wrap around yourself.

I had made a some trial pieces and samples to test out methods and materials but I wanted to make something on a bigger scale than I had done before. I recognised that

that would mean giving serious thought to how to scale up; how to make something robust enough to hang and maybe walk through but with space and air through it.

I think I have achieved some of that, although inevitably my mind turns to what I would do differently next time. Aside from getting some better images: finding somewhere to display such large pieces even to document them is a challenge when you have a small studio. In particular while the intense bright colours relate to the energy of my original small sketchbook drawings, I want to find more ways of creating colour variation across sections of the surface.