Kathy Hoath – Bucks Art Weeks

51 Kathy Hoath

Sculptural felting & mixed media art

Kathy Hoath is a fibre artist whose primary medium is wet felting. She often integrates this with other techniques and materials to push it beyond its traditional boundaries and add to its aesthetic potential.
She is captivated by the transformative nature of wet felting—how a bed of loose wool fibres becomes a durable, non-woven fabric—soft and pliable or tough as thick leather—shaped by hand, soap and water.
Her three-dimensional felt work is architectural in nature, driven by an exploration of form, structure, balance, volume, and movement. She investigates how surfaces define space and how solid forms interact with their surroundings. In these works, she challenges the limits of the medium, blending artistic expression with engineering problem-solving.
Her inspiration comes from nature, mathematics, art, architecture, engineering, mythology, sport and dance, but perhaps most of all from the question “Can that shape be made in felt?”