I invite you join me in creating a daily fibre sketch through the month of February! I love making these as a creative warm up exercise, before starting in on my felt work for the day. It's excellent for loosening up and getting inspired. [...]

Earlier this year, the International Feltmakers Association commissioned me to make a video presentation for their members for the AGM. Here's an introduction to the project: Creative Sparks. At this time in feltmaking, we have so many bright, exciting techniques to choose from, but that choice can also [...]

Fiona’s scholarship program is taking on a new format for 2021. It is a mentorship based program with foundations for advancement in skills established through her online workshop offerings, plus 2 hours of one on one discussion, review and critique, plus the completion of a final project and [...]

March 2020 marked the beginning of so many changes. Plans became undone and either postponed, re-imagined or cancelled entirely. The global pandemic of Covid -19 required a great shift on every level.  Many people have lost their livelihoods and their social support structures.  Everyone has had a marked [...]

I created the  Vessel within a Vessel tutorial a few years ago as a little tangent project for students in the Surface Design Online class at that time.  It's a fun and unique project, that covers several skills, and doesn't take much space or materials to make! It [...]

I am excited to present this installation, Resilience, at the Craft Council of British Columbia's gallery on Granville Island, in Vancouver next week. It's been a tremendous process creating all of these individual pieces to be presented as a whole, working in wood, clay, and felt.  Resilience Opening [...]

This is a most exciting collaboration!  Ellen Bakker and I have been working on this project for the last year and our plans have all come together into a wonderful workshop series plus exhibition. Salt Spring Island, BC: March 9-14, 2020 Nes aan de Amstel, Holland: April 6-11, [...]

The Felt Poncho is a great garment for throwing on over the top of just about anything; a personalized garment that instantly makes you feel uplifted and creatively stylish. This simple felt poncho is laid out as a rectangle with no resist, then sewn at the prefelt stage [...]

 You can be a part of an amazing creative community. You can achieve your creative goals and find your strongest creative voice. You can learn new technical skills to help you make the best felt possible.   These are the foundations of my workshops. Community building, artistic integrity and [...]

It was a pleasure to be interviewed recently by Annalisa Chelli for DHG, in regards to my felting practice and the the Sea States exhibition. I hope you'll enjoy reading the interview: DHG: FIONA DUTHIE – STORIES AND METAPHORS MADE INTO FELT

For my artist in residency I had a very definite plan on what I would create. It was big and bold and very ambitious. All the characteristics I want in a new creative project. But when I arrived at the Booth, this plan had to be set aside for a multitude of reasons.

Our next destination was the Island of Yell. This part of our travels was as much about people as place. We met with Shona Skinner at the Shetland Gallery, and Andy Ross at Global Yell, both in Sellafirth. I had recently been introduced, online, to Shona Skinner, artist and owner of the Shetland Gallery in Yell. Shona had just returned to Shetland after teaching at the Grampians Texture event in Hall's Gap, Australia, where I taught last year. It's a small and wonderful world!

Last week included a visit to the northern Shetland islands of Yell and Unst, with visiting friend Cinnamon, and my cousin, Carol. Different work pieces aligned to make the full day trip possible. We went straight to Unst, planning to work our way down slowly. Unst is the most northerly inhabited island in the United Kingdom, with only 700 residents, it is rugged and remote. The island feels open, spacious and wild. Good for roaming and thinking.

The sun was shining some of the time today, so I travelled down to the southern  tip of the island to visit Jarlshof.  I have come here on every trip to Shetland, and am awed everytime. The history and evolving shapes and forms are captivating.  There is now an [...]

For the month of April, I am artist in residence at the Booth in Scalloway in Shetland.  The building was constructed by the Scalloway Waterfront Trust in 2001 on the site of the oldest building in the village. It consists of a combined 'clean' working area and living space [...]

I am very excited to be heading to Italy next month for the opening of the Sea States exhibition, a collaborative exhibition between Katia Mokeyeva and myself. This exhibition was last shown at Timeless Textiles in Newcastle, Australia in March 2016. Both Katia and I have sold many of [...]

First Felt...What will your first project be to begin your creative practice in 2017? My first felt for 2017 includes several elements that I love....it is a project with hidden messages, it is an exploration of an idea, it incorporates different fibre arts techniques and invites open ended thinking, [...]

First Felt...What will your first project be to begin your creative practice in 2016? On the first day of the year I try to include some small aspect of all the activities and attitudes that I want to bring into the new year.  It's also a wonderful way to approach [...]

Making your own prefelts is so easy- and opens up so many opportunities for playing with colors, fibers and textures. Try using two or three different colors in layers; using wool for one layer and then another fiber like alpaca or angora for the next; or making nuno prefelt with [...]

Recently, I heard blue water sailors discussing sea states. I was intrigued by the term and investigated the Beaufort scale. I love the idea of the sea having a recognized state of being. Water movements, air movements and waves in varying degrees of calm and violence. A beautiful and ancient [...]

Yesterday saw the close of the SHIFT exhibition in North Vancouver.  The physical show is all packed up and back in our studios today, but all of the work can now be viewed in an exhibition catalogue. The catalogue can be viewed online here, and also purchased as a print [...]

In the creation of Propagation,  I build up layers of strata using my shadow felting techniques. This layering adds visual depth, emphasized by the dark line crevices. Cracks in our soil that allow for opportunity. Seed forms rise up above the surface, each with their own colour, pattern and potentiality. [...]

  All of the exhibition pieces for full(filled) are just about finished. Each work is now getting individual attention each day, making it ready for installation on Tuesday. The exhibition is in quite a small but interesting space. This means there are not many pieces in the show- one very [...]