Superman, Needle felted portrait of Henry Cavill

Needle felted wool portrait of Henry Cavill as Superman

24" x 24" — 2016

Transformers - Needle felted series

9 works in the Needle felted wool series "Transformers"

each portrait measures 24" x 24" 

— 2015 - 2016

01. Dame Edna Everage

02. Rrose Sélavy

03. Lili Elbe

04. Otsuta - Kitamura Ryokuro 

05. Ru Paul

06. Mailarta

07. Boy George

08. Matthu Anderson

09. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon

(all available for sale)

email me for price list: kenndal@gmail.com

Discarded Lives, Rotary Centre for the Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia

‘Discarded Lives: An Obsession with Things’ Hoarding, thrifting and the artists’ obsession with 

all things used or old. 

Rotary Centre for the Arts

Kelowna, BC

August 1 - 31, 2016

Curated by Shannon Lester

Needle felted wool study Lemmon and Curtis

"Lemmon & Curtis"

from the film "Some Like it Hot"

Needle felted wool over foam

24" x 24" — 2016

Studio update . . 1 April 2016

Greetings from Studio J ArtSpace

 I have been moving forward with ideas of creating larger crochet works as the completion of the "Distorts" series . . after 8 years of shoebox sized works for that installation (a total of 333 crocheted sculptures) I felt inspired to expand. The above image in a piece I've been working on for a number of months . . ( 5' x 5' - still a long way to go) . . but I am seeing the result I am am looking for.

—The art works have returned from the exhibition launch of the "Woven Tale Press: Selected Works 2015" Book at the Open Spaces Gallery in Putnam, Connecticut 

Thanks to Sandra Tyler and Paul Toussaint for their work to see this successful project through

—Needle felting has continued to inspire me and now I test myself with a 4' x 4' portrait work.

stay tuned as they progress . . 

—Writer Yvonne Owens has just republished the first writing she did on my work "Threaded Chronicles" you can  see it here at: Academia.edu

Ideas for new assemblage works are forming and materials being gathered and sorted . . 

if you feel compelled to drop by the studio give me a call or email:

Needle felted portrait of "Madame"

"Madame"

Needle felted wool, foam core 

24" x 24" — 2016

As part of the recent series of needle felted wool portraits, I decided to do a study of the Madame puppet from performance artist Wayland Flowers.

Needle felted portrait of Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe

Lili

24" x 24" 

Needle felted fool, foam core

Inspired by the portrayal of Lili by Eddie Redmayne in the recent film The Danish Girl.

Needle felted portrait of Boy George

George

Needle felted wool

24" x 24" — 2016

Needle felted portrait of John

John II

Needle fetled wool over styrofoam

24" x 24" x 2" — 2016

I've been busy for this past week working on a new approach to needle felting - a much looser method with choices of colour added much like paints dabs. The original photo is black and white and made for an interesting study in tonal range of imagination.

Needle felted portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

24" x 24"

Needle felted wool over foam core