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Natalie Tretyak

Land Remembered in Felt

Artist Statement

Natalie Tretyak’s signature wet-felting practice elevates traditional textile technique into fine art through meticulous layering, blending, and stitching. Rooted in craftsmanship and a commitment to sustainable materials, her work draws directly from the natural world and the place she calls home.

This exhibition is a fiber-based reflection on traveling through Western Canada and the way landscapes linger in memory. Rather than documenting specific sites, the pieces capture impressions: endless prairie skies, dense mountain forests, and vast coastlines translated into felted, tactile moments. Each work functions like a postcard: small, personal, and intentionally incomplete, shaped as much by movement and emotion as by geography.

Through texture, colour, and quiet material detail, viewers are invited to slow down and consider how land is remembered, carried, and reimagined through touch. The series moves through three groupings: Endless Skies of Alberta, where openness and subtle gradients prioritize sky over land; Treed Mountain Ranges of BC, dense with vertical texture, depth, and shadowed richness; and Vast Coast Line, where flowing fibers and rhythmic stitching echo wind, tide, and horizon. Together, these works form a journey: postcard-sized memories, stitched into place.

Artist Biography

Natalie Tretyak is a fibre artist and feltmaker who lives and works in Fernie, British Columbia. Working with wool, fleece, silk, and other animal and plant fibres, she is known for her seamless wet-felting technique—building images through meticulous layering, then wetting, rolling, and hand-working the fibres until they bind into a single, durable fabric without sewing.

Inspired by the Canadian wilderness, Tretyak creates textured, vibrant landscape compositions that translate light, colour, and terrain into tactile “fibre paintings.” Grounded in a traditional craft with deep roots in everyday life, her contemporary practice reimagines felt as a fine-art medium—inviting viewers to slow down and connect more deeply with the natural world.

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