Rebecca lives and works in a cottage by a burn in SW Scotland with her Springer Spaniel, Oswald. She has a croft in the Outer Hebrides, which keeps her close her to the place that inspires her making.

Her practice has evolved from drawing and painting and a background in landscape design.

She works in an organic way, making felted vessels and rugs from raw materials using fleece from North Uist. Much of this she has shorn, gathered and processed herself.

Working with sheep and the land for many years has given her a deep understanding of the connection between her materials and their place of origin. Whilst Rebecca has no formal training in textiles, her work sits within a long tradition of making yarn, knitting and weaving on the Scottish Isles.

She continues to learn, experiment and develop her practice, recently writing and illustrating a children’s picture book, “MacSprout, Keeper of the Corncrackers”. Her work is inspired by her love for wild places. Glimpses of wind, light, sea, tides, bog, moor and machair, find their way into her rugs and vessels. There is always this sense of the elemental in Rebecca’s work.

“My work grows and evolves as I make.  I’m interested in how the felted work and drawings extend each other when considered together, but I also see them as individual pieces in their own right.

Recently I’ve begun to collect and incorporate local wild plants into my work, especially the Vessels.

I also combine raw and carded fleece into Rugs.”

 

I welcome bespoke commissions. Please email rebecca@rebeccacottonstudio.com  or fill in the form on my Contact page