About
Teaching Experience
Community Centres and groups
• Open Door Day Care Centre, Bray
• Sunbeam Services
• St John of Gods Services
• Ballywaltrim Youth Service
• Bray Resource centre
• The I.C.A. (Irish Countrywomen's Association) Greystones, Ashford, Bray
• Rural womens Group, Kells, County Kerry
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Feltmakers Ireland
Libraries:
• Get Crafting programmes DLR Culture Department in the Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire
• Bealtaine Festival DLR Culture department in the Lexicon Library, Dun Laoghaire
• Shankill Library
• Dalkey Libray
• Greystones Library
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Wicklow Library
Schools and Dept of Education:
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Dominican College, Wicklow
Gaelscoil na Fuinnseoige, Churchtown, Co. Dublin
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The Glebe, National School, Wicklow
• St Kilians Secondary School, Bray
• St Laurence College, Cabinteely
• Loreto Bray
• St Cronans BNS, Bray
• Newcourt School, Bray
• Bray School Project
• St Philomena’s Ravenswell, Bray
• St Brigid's Greystones
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Sandford Park, Ranelagh
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St Catherine's Scool, Newcastle
• TAP (Teacher Artist Partnership) Tutors in Primary and Secondary schools
• BLAST Arts in Education residencies, run by Dept of Education
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I Am Creative Residency with National Arts in Education
Design Centres:
• The Design House - Temple Bar
• The Muddle arts and craft centre
Companies:
• AIB
• BOI
• In-person and online classes
• One to one private tuition
Sharon Wells
Hello, let me introduce myself. I am felmaker for the past 20 years and I work with wool, silk and other natural fibres to produce unique and individual felted pictures 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.
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 and Wicklow Craft Foundation. And delighted to be included on Wicklow's first Craft Trail www.madeinwicklow.com
I love to teach and I am a TAP (Teacher Artist Partnership) trained artist in residence. So I get to bring feltmaking to primary schools which is such a delight. I also teach secondary schools, homeschool groups and adults.
Although I mostly concentrate on feltmaking I like to teach wool processing and dyeing. I also teach hand and machine embroidery, coiled basket making, 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.
I am the coordinator of the Muddle tutor group who teach a wide range of arts and crafts. I believe creativity and community are fundamental for wellbeing.
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.
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.
Currently my work is stocked in
The Boatyard Gallery Greystones
The Design Loft, Powerscourt House, Enniskerry
And you can visit my studio to view my work, purchase or commission a special piece.
Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Tel: 087 2020560