What's this all about?

Think sugar coated bundles of detail and slight oddness combined to make paintings that are arresting and uncanny.

I'm Dawn Waters and I paint with fiber. In 2014, a friend taught me the basics of wet felting and I began making wearables. Soon after, I was introduced to the felting needle. I wondered if I could make a fiber portrait with one of these barbed needles. I had never seen a fiber painting, and had not created a portrait in any medium. Needle felting is relatively new, unlike wet felting - it’s like tattooing, but with wool. I kept at it, and finally the likenesses were recognizable and the intended emotions emerged.

I relish the challenge of bringing a subject to life through fiber and creating work that begs to be touched. If you would like to see more photos of a piece, please let me know.