Felicity has been creating large scale public, interior, architectural, festival and community art commissions in a range of metals for the last 17 years.
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Drawing inspiration from nature and organic forms, she uses modern and traditional techniques to create her contemporary feminine spin on blacksmithing using both raw and recycled material.
Career highlights include commissions for Cirque du Soleil, the London Olympic Park, Glastonbury Festival, Chelsea Flower Show, The National Gallery, Venice Biennale, London Zoo, and Burning Man Festival.
With nearly two decades of hands-on experience, and the privilege of working with some of the UK’s most iconic festivals, outdoor arts companies, world-renowned shows and ceremonies — as well as celebrated interior designers, architects, and landscape architects. She has the ability to design, problem solve, fabricate and install awe inspiring pieces with her unique imagination.
Felicity’s love for the natural world, commitment to sustainability, and attention to detail infuse her work with a distinctive magic.
She regularly collaborates with other artists and designers, helping bring their creative visions to life. Her projects often bridge disciplines, drawing in lighting designers, sound and movement artists, engineers, and skilled makers to create powerful, multi-sensory experiences.
Her passion for sharing her craft has led her to run countless workshops and community metalwork projects, engaging with a wide range of people from diverse backgrounds.
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HERSTORY
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Felicity’s first creative outlets were drawing and painting, inspired by her father, a car designer and an avid painter. After leaving school she completed a foundation in Art and Design at Leeds College of Art where her interest turned to photography, which she pursued for her BA at the London College of Printing.
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Once she graduated, her keen eye for capturing the moment in both natural and urban environments took her travelling around the world. Life on the road meant living in some eccentric dwellings that demanded innovation and imagination to maintain. Most of these were vehicles and boats, so out of necessity, Felicity learned to weld; it was these experiences that fostered her burgeoning relationship with metal.
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The growing desire to express herself creatively through metal drove Felicity to take her N.Dip. In Blacksmithing and Metal Working, for which she was awarded a distinction at the Hereford College of Technology, home of the UK’s leading metalworking program.
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Her favourite artist is Mother Nature, but she also loves the sketches of Ernst Haeckel and Gaudi’s architecture. She works in iron, steel, stainless steel and copper, creating both functional and sculptural pieces for the home, the garden, shows, festivals and for the public domain.
“I love the fact you can manipulate metals into almost any form while they keep their strength”, she says, “Through a hands-on, physical process you develop an intimate relationship with the piece you're working on”.
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The preservation of the environment is also important to Felicity, she volunteers and leads sessions for children with ‘Tree Musketeers’ a charity which grow and plant trees in London.
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She enjoys working with recycled metal and upcycles whenever possible and likes to play with the shapes of disused old tools and motor parts to create interesting textures and forms in her pieces.
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Felicity loves working in the public domain. She believes that making our streets and shared spaces more creative and vibrant places to be is vitally important for people’s well being.
​“I want my work to shine some love and beauty into the everyday experience, a glimpse by a passer by, or chance encounter that makes someone smile and realise creative possibilities are endless!”
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She now lives and works between London and Mumbai. Having fallen in love with India many years ago, she finds great inspiration in its vibrant landscape, rich creative culture and awesome people.
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She truly loves her job and creates each of her pieces with passion and enthusiasm. The design process is just as important to her as the practical stage of her work and she enjoys working closely with clients to fulfil their functional and aesthetic needs as well as taking great pleasure in imagining and realising her own creative visions.
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