Heartfelt 2025
ANDREA HUNTER
 

From Saturday 24th May to Sunday 6th 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 Andrea’s original feltworks, both in monochrome and colour, specially created for the exhibition.  

 

“We feel thrilled and privileged to host this exhibition. Andrea is undoubtedly one of the country’s leading felt artists and what makes it even more special for us is to be able to showcase the work of someone born, raised and lives, just a short journey over the hill from the gallery. Andrea’s work is absolutely unique and could only be produced by someone so deeply connected to the place and the people of the Dales”.  

Richard 

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