Still Life With Too Many Petals

This series of hand needle-felted works began as botanical drawings, originally created as flat, digital studies. Removed from the screen, each image is reworked fiber by fiber through a tactile, hands-on process—coaxing loose, cloud-soft wool into shape with a tiny barbed needle. What was once flat becomes soft, dimensional, and touchable.

The floral forms reference traditional still life and decorative pattern, but they aren’t intended to be botanically precise. Instead, they’re intuitive and expressive, shaped by color, repetition, and the quiet unpredictability of needle felting. As each piece is made, it develops its own personality—just imperfect enough to feel alive.

There are eight pieces in total—four grounded in earthy brown and four in soft pink—each complete on its own, but even more compelling mixed together. As a group, they celebrate process, material, and the pleasure of making something slowly by hand in a world that rarely asks us to.

 

Still Life With Too Many Petals

    • 10"H x 10" W (Unframed)
    • Needle felted wool 
    • Edition of 15
    • Each edition is made-to-order and may take up to 6 weeks to create. We will notify you when your piece has shipped
    • This piece comes unframed but framing is available. For more information please email info@steviehowell.com
    • Due to the unique nature of each hand-felted work, your piece may vary slightly from what is pictured but will very closely retain the same imagery and colors
    $650.00