Fealt is a collaboration project between artists Lucy Currell and Adam Blencowe - who design and craft
handmade panels that are transformed into wall hangings, rugs, and upholstered furniture - blurring
the lines between art and design. Their work draws on the quiet shifts of season, the colours and patterns of nature that often pass unseen. Organic forms are studied, painted, and transformed into felt, made in limited editions, but with each piece unique. Set within interiors, the panels speak as both art and textile - distinctive reminders of the overlooked richness of the natural world, nature’s beauty brought indoors through skilled craftsmanship - tactile, grounding, and quietly luxurious.
Adam Blencowe, a product designer and furniture maker, creates exquisite bespoke pieces of furniture from his workshop in Somerset, where the felted panels for Fealt are created. Lucy Currell, interior designer and founder of Studio Iro - is known for soulful interiors, celebrating natural materials and organic forms,
expertly balanced with contemporary design.
The pair source their wool from Solva, the oldest working mill in Pembrokeshire, where fabric is still woven on century-old looms. Each design begins in watercolour, which is then translated into felt: loose fibres placed delicately by hand onto the woven wool base before being bound using their reimagined ancient technique. The panels that emerge are artworks in themselves: alive with colour, rhythm and form. Their undulating shapes and quiet spaces in between draw the eye into a story of balance and harmonious beauty.
At the heart of Fealt lies the notion that also echoes Studio Iro’s ethos - the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, the quiet beauty of imperfection - yet Fealt is rooted in an older European etymology. The word itself traces back to Old English and Old Norse, where fealt signified fault, blemish, or flaw. In this work, these ‘faults’ are not concealed but celebrated: the irregularities of wool, the unpredictable gestures of the hand, the subtle variations in texture and tone. Each piece is a meditation on imperfection as artistry, carrying forward an ancient story into contemporary design, where what was once may have been seen as a flaw becomes a mark of beauty. Every panel tells a story, giving the work unique depth and character.