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.
Painted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Watercolors, gouaches, watercolor pencils in my SketchBook
This trip took 12 hours from L.A. to S.F. It was a beautiful day and I saw the seashore almost all the
way, wonderful experience! After I went to Pleasanton, after to a racing park , where we met a musician
who was writing music, very interesting. Some paintings from the S.F. Golden Gate, which is so big
and beautiful.
Designed and felted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Needle felting
Hand dyed wool roving on wool fabric
Different type of pieces in felting, it is a very rewarding technique. It is like painting with watercolors, as you do it by layers. Very recommended hobby!
Painted by Gun-Marie Nalsen 2024
Watercolors , gouaches, metallic watercolors on watercolor paper
Framed 8″ x 10″
Playing with colors you get to imagine the universe outside. It was made as a graduation present for
my grand kid Diego, who graduated as an Engineer at Mudd College in L.A.
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