Back in 2023, I received a commission that felt excitingly different from my usual work: to create a needle-felted husky dog mask for the independent film Surrender To It . I was of course thrilled with the commission, but I really had no idea quite how special this project would become. Bringing a Real Dog to Life in Felt Unlike many of my masks, which wander the borderlands of folklore and imagination, this piece had to capture a real dog, that played the part of "Wolf" in the film. The...

At the opening of the exhibition in June 2025 For the past five months, several of my masks have been part of the exhibition The Sheep Ate Up the Fairies  at Trowbridge Museum — a wonderfully imaginative exploration of how industrialisation reshaped Wiltshire’s wool towns and, with them, the older rhythms of rural life. As the exhibition draws to a close today, I’ve been reflecting on the seven pieces I contributed — each exploring how Wiltshire’s woollen heritage and folklore continue to...

The making of a needlefelt fox mask