Hemmings Gallery is pleased to present fiber artist Kristina Foley, whose large-scale felted works invite viewers into lush, tactile landscapes that shift between the familiar and the fantastical.

Using raw wool, combed Merino, and wild silks, Foley continues her twenty-year long exploration of feltmaking—an ancient, transformative craft. Her carefully chosen materials engage the senses and highlight the origins and slow processes that shape each piece.

For this exhibition, Foley combines wool from a flock of endangered Navajo-Churro sheep near her Western Oregon home with fine Merino from Shaniko Wool Company, an Oregon-based leader in regenerative agriculture and fully traceable domestic wool production.

In addition to wool, Foley incorporates rare wild silks—Muga, Tussar, and Eri—from rural India. She further enhances these silks with botanical dyes grown and prepared in her own garden, producing luminous, richly textured surfaces.

Foley’s work is grounded in the Latin root of animal—anima, meaning soul or life force. For her, natural fibers are not just materials, but living connections to landscapes, economies, and cultural lineages. Whether wool from endangered sheep or silk from wild moths, each fiber carries the stories of the people and places it comes from. In Foley’s hands, these materials become expressions of interconnection—between body and land, past and present, tradition and transformation.