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Lyn's studio is in a converted barn and accessed through a Japanese inspired garden. Not only does she create her own work here , but she opens up her studio to the public during Art on the Map weekends see www.artonthemap.org.uk for details. She also runs courses throughout the year, contact her by email or consult the calender for her current programme. She accommodates small groups of 5 people and provides provides lunch and refreshments throughout the day inclusive of tuition for £32.

The workshop

hats and boots

Using a plastic template to start the process , Lyn creates a variety of forms, from boots to hats and large bags and vessels.

Other hats & Boots

Nuno

Lyn makes jackets, scarves, and hats using the technique of nuno.You can watch her video following the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ROTZ9ZuPv8 53 minutes into the video.

More Nuno work

3D work

Using a plastic template to start the process , Lyn creates a variety of forms, from boots to hats and large bags and vessels.

Samples of 3d work

Student's work

Some of the stunning work produced by students includes scarves, hats, and wallhangings.

Examples of student's work

Commission

Lyn is very happy to make an item to your specification. For example this might be by showing an outfit/fabric swatch for which a matching hat is required. The gallery shows commissions where as Artist in Residence Lyn has worked with school children or Patients to produce a communal piece.

Commissioned pieces

Backgrounds

Lyn has created some stunning pieces of felt, some of which are used for the background images of this site. If you are interested in these or any other work Lyn has created feel feel to contact her at info@lynjfelt.co.uk

Felt work

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Lyn Jenkins is a textile designer of wide experience currently working from her studio in Lincolnshire.

 

Trained originally as a printed textile desisgner with a B.A. in Fine Art from Newcastle University she became interested in the construction of fabric as well as patterning it's surface.

 

She learnt spinning and weaving, becoming chairman of Lincolnshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers at the end of the 80's when she had passed the Bradford and Ilkley Certificate of Spinning and Weaving. It was on this course she discovered the art of feltmaking . This very tactile construction of a fabric which can be diaphanous or strongly sculptural has dominated her working life ever since. She has been a member of the International Feltmakers Association for over 20 years and regional organiser for 6 of them.

 

Lyn has also been a member of the Contemporary Craft Network for a similar time, and has regularly exhibited with them both nationally and abroad, taking an exhibition which included her felt to Archangel, Russia with a small group of artists on an exchange with the help of the Usher Gallery, Lincoln. Since 2000 she has been a member of Art on the Map Open Studios, and has opened her studio to the public each successive year.

 

Lyn has enjoyed communicating and sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm for her craft with members of the public, teaching at B.Tec level and as Artist in Residence in schools and colleges in Norfolk and throughout Lincolnshire.

 

Lyn runs workshops in Beginners and Intermmediate Feltmaking for groups and Guilds and small courses for the public at her studio in Lincolnshire.

 

Art in the workshop 

 

Contemporary Crafts Network


Lyn Jenkins video
Click on the image to see Lyn Jenkins at the 25th anniversary of the Contemporary Craft Network

The Workshop


Lyn J at work
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