Alice Cowdrey

Alice is a textile artist who specialises in needle felting, but also incorporates paper mache, dried flowers, knitting and stitching into her work. Alice looks to nature, animals and folk art for inspiration and likes to tell stories which incorporate her Eastern European ancestry, paganism, myth and spirituality. Much of her work features the Raven- a symbol of transformation, rebirth and magic. She also likes to explore ideas around death and what might exists outside of our material world. Needle felting is a dry felting technique where a barbed needle is used to repeatedly stab wool fibres. Alice also enjoys teaching needle felting workshops out of her home based Oakura studio.