Bessie Bidder

Bessie Bidder is a Frome based self employed fibre artist. She has made most things out of felt, from massive wall hangings to tiny three dimensional finger puppets. Bessie combines wet felting and dry needle felting in her work and always uses nature or the natural environment as inspiration.

Other than individual work she works regularly with Special Educational Needs children using felt making therapeutically. She teaches community workshops in Frome to children and adults in local schools and has made lots of collaborative projects in schools and the community in Frome and surrounding area, some with Arts Council England funding.

Bessie sells her felt animals in the Black Swan Arts shop and sells pictures and animal sculptures to individuals through word of mouth, Instagram and Facebook and her website.