Laura Ricks of Emerald Hill Textiles
Laura Ricks is from Lafayette, Indiana. She has been working with felting and fiber arts since 2017.
Laura particularly enjoys creating felted landscapes, which feature spectacular skies and clouds, beautiful natural scenery, and picture-perfect depth and perspective. She often draws inspiration from her rural Indiana surroundings and her travels, with the ability to turn photos into felted masterpieces.
You can follow Laura on Instagram @EmeraldHillTextiles or inquire about her art directly through her website, EmeraldHillTextiles.com
Courses by Laura Ricks
Breakwater Beach
Create a beachscape with crashing waves, wet and dry sand,
and awesome clouds among a beautiful gradient sky
Crisp Autumn Day
Create a “big sky” landscape with fluffy clouds, a rolling field, and a sweet scene of a country home with autumn leaves on the trees
Upward Gaze
Create the illusion of depth and perspective looking up through the treetops and into the sky beyond
Redbud Reflections
Create a lush landscape of a forest and redbuds in bloom reflecting over the water
Lush Lavender Fields
Felt a beautiful country landscape scene with rows of lavender buds retreating into the distant mountains, with fluffy clouds and textural foreground lavender buds
Sunset Silhouette Series
Felt three gorgeous landscapes featuring brilliant sunsets and star-filled skies behind a silhouette of pine trees
