Medium: Fibre Arts
Location: Vancouver BC
Member Since: 2020
Maria Roth is a Vancouver-based designer who makes felted wool objects of uncommon beauty. Her background includes graduate training and professional work in visual art, museum anthropology, and graphic design.
Her work is intended to delight and be used for many years, embodying a love of exuberant colours intertwined with the sombre greys of rainy West Coast winters. Her background includes graduate training and work in visual art, museum anthropology, and graphic design.
Focused on one of a kind and small run production, her studio is also committed to sustainable practice through careful material sourcing, use of biodegradable and recycled/vintage/antique materials, and low impact production methods.
FELTED WOOL BOWLS
Maria’s felted wool bowls add a pop of warmth and colour to any room. Although they are very soft, the bowls are also incredibly durable, and will give years of everyday use as storage containers. Available in many sizes, the bowls can be used on a bedside table (jewellery, watch), at an entranceway (keys, wallet, cell phone), on a desk (usb sticks, paper clips) or anywhere you might need a catchall. They protect the contents within, as well as the surface on which they sit.
Each bowl is made from beginning to end by the artist in her studio near Granville Island, and takes several days to complete. The bowls are first crocheted using a yarn sourced from a small, family-run mill in the US, full felted (shrunk using hot water and soap), carefully blocked on containers, left to fully dry, and then trimmed.
