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Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving

Framed

5″ x 5″

Another needle felted piece that I made to take to the Show and Sale of the Handweavers of Bucks County, this November. Flowers always flowers…it is so joyfully to invent the shapes of them, and always have a blue vase because it reminds me my Mom.

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

5″x 5″

Fall is the most beautiful season of the year. The colors are incredible. The yellows, reds and oranges are

everywhere and on the ground the rugs of colors replicate the above ones. It is so nice to sit down and felt these scenes.

Designed by Anne-Marie Herrera

Punched and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Punch needle

Hand dyed cotton threads and hand dyed wool roving on linen

Framed

5″ x 5″

This is a very common exotic flower in the tropics. I like to punch some of my daughter’s designs.

Here is one.

Designed felted and painted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Needle felting: hand dyed wool roving and wool yarn on wool fabric

Painting: Watercolors and gouache on watercolor paper

Gouaches on watercolor paper

Framed

For me the sea is like a magneto. I grew up very near the sea, in the tropics, so I love the colors, of the sky, the water the smell, therefore I felt it, and paint it always.

Paintings and collages by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Watercolors, gouaches papers of different media and a lot of imagination!

Designed needle felted and watercolors by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Haiku by Anne-Marie Herrera

Lettering by Sylvia Bauder

Needle felting , watercolors and haiku

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Watercolors

Hand made paper

Framed 8″ x 8″

Wood hoops 4″

These were a project in many steps. I first felted the three hoops, two with waves and the third with a cascade. I realized that they were too small, so I decided to frame them. I asked my daughter Anne-Marie to write two Haiku, which are perfect, and then I asked my good friend, Sylvia to write the Haiku on the hand made paper . I painted with watercolors the surrounding mountains where the cascade is. I love the result. It was so much fun to make especially because it involved several hands!

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.

Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Needle felting

Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric

Framed

6″ x 6″

It is always nice to needle felt flowers. I can invent different ones, maybe they are not

real but they look beautiful.

Collages: paper, magazines, gouache, watercolors, glue…all kind of things that passes in front of me goes in.

It is a wonderful way to let go….

Painting in negative space by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024

Using acrylics, which is not my favorite medium, I struggled with this negative space painting. One has to think “backwards”, which is not so easy for me. I think that it came out quite good. That exercise I did with my daughter Anne-Marie. It was fun! I also did the two ones that are under, but with watercolors, it is a bit different because the colors are milder.