About 

Sharon Wells 

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Hello, let me introduce myself.  I am feltmaker for the past 20 years and I work with wool, silk and other natural fibres to produce unique and individual felted pictures wildflower and Irish bogland sculptures and other wool based products. I add detail with needlefelting,  hand embroidery and machine embroidery.  Naturally from working with wool fibre, I learnt to wash, card, dye, and  spin, and weave on peg looms. I also knit a little and crochet badly.

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I have participated in a number of group exhibitions and had my work featured on RTE’s Nationwide. I am a member of Feltmakers Ireland, Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Guild  and Wicklow Craft Foundation. And delighted to be included in www.madeinwicklow.com  I have demonstrated for the Irish Grown Wool Council at the National Ploughing Championshios and Bloom festivals. In April 2025 I presented a talk on my work with wool and it's role in healing at the EWE European Wool Exchange Foundation conference. 

In 2026 I was the coordinator of the European Wool Experience (a showcase of Irish and European wool over 5 rooms) during the EWE Foundations Conference.

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I love to teach and I am a TAP (Teacher Artist Partnership) trained artist in residence. So I get to bring feltmaking and other crafts to primary schools which is such a delight. I have participated in the National Arts In Education I am Creative programme with St Catherine's Special School in Newcastle, Co Wicklow.  I also teach secondary schools, homeschool groups, libraries, Social prescibing groups, neurodivergent, special needs and private classes.

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Although I mostly concentrate on feltmaking I like to teach wool processing and dyeing.  I also teach hand and machine embroidery, coiled basket making, weaving  decoupage, eco printing, and artefact illustration. I source, wash and dye wool direct from Irish farms for my own work.  And I use wool from my parents attic and random yarn and fibre gifted to me.

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I have an MA in Archaeology which concentrates on Archaeological Ilustrations from the 18th century in Ireland. I have worked as an Archaeological Illustrator and in online training as a project manager. 

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Growing up in Kerry I fell in love with the landscape which led to studying archaeology and then to making felted landscape art. I love to paint and draw and spend time with my family and my crafty friends.  I have one dog and three cats and love animals of all types. If I could I would have my own flock of sheep, a buffalo and a rhinoceros, and several horses. But as I hate leaving animals outside this won't be happening. 

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My new work  is - Portach Alainn - Wildflower and Bogland wool felted sculptures.

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I have displayed a large Bogland piece in Powerscourt House at the second Made in Wicklow Exhibition, at Bloom at the Irish Grown Wool Council stand in the demonstration area at Bord Bia Bloom nd it is now in the National Craft Gallery in Kilkenny.  And since July 2026 I have a Bogland sculpture on permanent display at Kerry Bog Village, Red Fox, Glenbeigh. 

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I worked on a Project called Good Bog Bad Bog  with Wicklow Uplands Council which is funded by Creative Ireland through Wicklow Arts Office in 2025.  Participants in creative sessions will be organised by Bray and North Wicklow Partnership. In 2026 I  was artist in residence on the Black Sheep project as part of the Shaking Bog Festival. 

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Media links​

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• https://irishgrownwoolcouncil.com/european-wool-day-2026-ireland/

• https://www.independent.ie/county/wicklow/music-heritage-and-community-celebrated-as-wicklows-shaking-bog-festival-comes-to-a-close/a/160450373.html

• ​https://ewe.network/ewd2026/

• EWE Foundation 2025 Rome Conference 

• Made by Humans Documentary by Independent Filmmaker  Joe Van Veltzen  Sharon Wells Feltmaker 

• National Arts in Education - I am Creative video – “Just Had To Start Small And Go All The Way Up To The Top":

• ​Bringing the Bog to Bloom with the Irish Grown Wool Council

• ​Independent newspaper and Bray People article 

• Cahersiveen Music and Arts Festival workshops in August 

• Washing and Dyeing Fibre  with Sharon Wells - Feltmakers Ireland video 

• Making Errigal Mountain felted artwork

• Making Sugarloaf Mountain felted artwork ​

www.sharonwellsart.com