Theresa May-O'Brien

Theresa May-O’Brien has been an artist since her childhood in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, inspired by the culture, seasons, and fabric of her rural roots. As a landscape watercolorist she studied under the legendary Jack Flynn and became a noted artist in her own right. Her creative inquiry took her into the fiber arts where she applied the eye of a painter to spinning and felting. Now an accomplished feltmaker, Theresa has studied with the Old World master felt makers of Scandinavia, Kyrgyzstan, Hungary and Turkey where she has traveled and lived, learning both the methods and the culture of the felting tradition. Theresa’s work has reached new artistic levels through mentorship under master felt maker Mehmet Girgic. She has been a teacher and lecturer throughout the northeast United States on both the craft of felt making as well as the cultural bridges that can be built through art. Theresa currently lives and teaches on her small farmstead in upstate New York.