From a felting-project in Norway August 19.- 24. august 2001. 10 felters from 5 different countries were invited to come to Kalvåg north of Bergen to make an art-trail. The things we felted will be staying in the nature. Children from the school in the area were invited to come an d help us with our ideas and 3 local firms helped us by donating money, wool and accommodation.

The participants were (from the left): Jenny from England, Lucy from Alaska, Pamela from Ireland, Birgitte from Denmark, Ayala from Oregon US, Solveig from Norway, Helle from Denmark, Petra from Germany, Elin from Norway and Karin who arranged the big project (There is one participant who unfortunately is not on this photo. Her name is Karin and her work is not between the photoes I made either because it was too dark. She made a wonderfull big sun that was hanging in the waterfall with big drops of colours hanging under it.

Karin and solveig are felting a sea-anemone

Head felted by me on the treetrunks

Same as above

The young people are helping me needling my faces stronger.

Ayala is working on her big heather.

Here's some of Ayalas work on the Trail. She enlarged the plants that grew at her chosen place.

Flat felted piece lying in the waterfall made with the same colours as the stones.

Karin is telling the children about the project.

Petra has felted a troll that is climbing the tree

Karin has felted fishes swimming in the air. 

Helles fish has a mirror in the center that reflects the landscape.

The idea of Jennys big flat piece is that it reflects the colours from the sky. On this picture above Jennys work you see a big spiders net made by the children. 

This is Lucys waterfall.

Solveig made these apples

Elin has wowen these shapes together.

The result of the childrens and the young peoples work.

Same as above.

After the reception Karin is opening the trail.

During our work a lot of people came and talked to us and were very interested - and 150 people from the town came to the reception and walked the trail.

It was difficult to leave the view we now knew so good.