Jaana Mattson has developed new fiber techniques in needle felting to best capture the vibrancy and nuance of landscape. Using delicate layers of dyed roving, her needle felted wool textiles are built and anchored one wisp at a time with a notched needle until the image becomes fabric. With these materials she manipulates light and color in much the same way as an impressionist painter, with the resulting layers of fiber blended by the viewer’s eye. The organic textures of the wool textile are then set in wood. The materials energize each other and the resulting sculpture takes on a resonance greater than the sum of its parts. Jaana is a Minnesota Native who happily transplanted to Marshall, NC in 2020 with her dogs. Her award-winning work and tutorials have been published in the Schiffer Publication "Jaana Mattson's Landscapes in Wool: The Art of Needle Felting".
