Textile Artist – Nuno Felting & Silk Painting
Hazel has always enjoyed working with textiles, particularly silk painting and nuno felting. This allows her the freedom to use bright colours and designs that she is drawn to.
“I just love colour, texture and design and making fascinators is the perfect opportunity to let my creative spirit loose. Another great outlet I also enjoy is silk painting, which lends itself to such beautiful and vibrant colours and from these colourful metres I make wraps and scarves. Nuno felting is another textile form which I enjoy greatly and I particularly love working with fine silks to produce very fine and lightweight felted wraps and scarves.”Hazel learnt her skills and techniques from tutorials with Marion Boyling, Kirri Toose, Polly Stirling, Jenny Hopper, Glenys Mann, India Flint and Yvonne Twinning and more recently Monique Dery-Boyer.
She loves to create painted and felted scarves, also wraps and knitted scarves.
More recently, workshops with S.A Brown, Milliners and Christine Yarker, Head Milliner to Opera Australia, have seen Hazel venturing into the wonderful world of hats and fascinators. Hazel makes fascinators to match her clients’ outfits.
Hazel joined the NSCG in 2006.
