Borbala is a versatile creator with a background in arts and visual communication as well as a mother. In this hands on crafting session, she will share the technique of needle felting and the making of beautiful Owl Medicine Necklaces and the Goddess figure.
She was born in Hungary and lived in several European countries before she moved to the US 10 years ago. Currently she lives with her two boys in beautiful Ojai, CA.
“The further I moved away from crowded cities, the deeper I got connected to nature and to my own artistic expression. I have an MA in visual communication, worked as a make up artist, was dancing in theater groups for years and always did something creative, but when I learned about needle felting 5 years ago, I found the medium that I had been always looking for. I love that with this technique I can work with all kinds of beautiful natural fibers and make figures, soft statues, dolls, animals, tapestries, objects, jewelry, basically anything I can think of or others ask me to. A few years ago I named them BoriDolls Creations. You name it… I felt it. In this work, nature inspires me a lot. My real passion is to create creatures that are part of the unseen world, mythical figures and spirits of nature. Fairies, pixies, sprites, dragons, gnomes, mermaids… just to name a few. To make them visible I use colorful wool and mix them with natural found objects like moss, shells, pine cones, acorns, grass, etc or recycled and vintage material”