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Teaching Experience 

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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

  • 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

  • Southside Psrtnership Social Prescibing

• Shankill Library
• Dalkey Libray
• Greystones Library

  • Wicklow Library


Schools and Dept of Education:

  • National Arts in Education

  • Dominican College, Wicklow

Gaelscoil na Fuinnseoige, Churchtown, Co. Dublin

  • 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

  • Sandford Park, Ranelagh

  • St Catherine's School, Newcastle


• TAP (Teacher Artist Partnership) Tutors in Primary and Secondary schools
• BLAST Arts in Education residencies, run by Dept of Education

  • 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 

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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 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 and Wicklow Craft Foundation. And delighted to be included on Wicklow's first Craft Trail www.madeinwicklow.com  I am a member of the Irish Grown Wool Council and have demonstrated for them 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 Foundaiton 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.

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. 

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I am currently working on a Project called Good Bog Bad Bog  with Wicklow Uplands Council which is funded by Creative Ireland through Wicklow Arts Office.  Participants in creative sessions will be organised by Bray and North Wicklow Partnership and the ICA Hollywood branch. 

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Media links​

www.sharonwellsart.com

Currently my work is stocked in

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The Boatyard Gallery Greystones

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Crafty Craic 

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The Design Loft, Powerscourt House, Enniskerry

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And you can visit my studio to view my work, purchase or commission a special piece.

Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

Tel: 087 2020560

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