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Designed and hooked, felted,punched, woven by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2011

Mix media :needle felting, rug hooking, punch needle and weaving on linen

Framed

27″ x 38″

As you can see it is a huge piece that is hanging in my room. It is part of my life story.It start way down to the left, I was born in Sweden, so there are the Santa Lucia, the Dalahast, the Swedish flag and the birch trees. My parents and my sister Lena and I. When I was one and a half years my parents decided to emigrate to Venezuela, just after the War ll. I grew up in Caracas, a wonderful city surrounded by mountains, the Avila is the main one. We spend all the weekends at the beach, half an hour from the city. I got married and had my kids. I learned how to weave, so I spend many hours at my big loom working.Things started to go bad in Venezuela, and we all moved abroad.One of my daughters to Madrid Spain, and the rest to USA.You can see my kids and grand kids on the way up on the left. I moved with my youngest son and family to Cincinnati, OH and there I met a wonderful group of artists of the fiber. We were at the Loveland Studio on Main every Tuesday. I learned to do rug hooking, punch needle and needle felting there. I was also weaving a little as you can see at the top right. It was a wonderful life. I learned a lot there. In 2015 we moved to Doylestown, PA, where I continue with my fiber art, and also I am mainly painting in watercolors.