Felted Lanscape Workshop

This full‑day felting workshop guides students through creating a textured 9 × 12" needle‑felted mountain landscape with a dramatic sky. The primary focus is on building the skills needed to construct a landscape in fibre—fine layering for subtle colour blends, shaping forms, creating depth, and working with a variety of fibres to achieve rich visual effects.
Students will also explore how to analyze a reference image to support their creative decisions, learning how to identify useful elements, simplify complex areas, and adjust details to strengthen the final composition.
A selection of specialty fibres—including mohair lace, silk, and fine yarn—will be available to enhance texture and atmosphere. All materials are provided. The class runs from 10:00–4:00 pm, with a 45‑minute lunch break.

Instructor Bio:

Vicki Sullivan is a Canadian fibre and encaustic artist whose work reflects a lifelong love of texture, colour, and the natural world. She studied Western and Far East Art History at the University of Calgary before discovering her creative home in wool felting and encaustic. Her award‑winning work has been recognized at the Calgary Stampede and collected across Western Canada.She teaches both locally and online as one of 29 international instructors for Painting with Fire Volume 6. She has also recently started serving as a juror for the ACACA provincial art competitions. Raised in Cochrane and now based on a small hobby farm in central Alberta, she continues to draw inspiration from nature, travel, and the rhythms of home and family.