Studio Claudy Jongstra

Studio Claudy Jongstra is the atelier of Dutch artist Claudy Jongstra (Roermond, 1963), who left a career in fashion for wool felting in 1994 and moved her Amsterdam studio to Friesland in 2001, where she started raising a flock of Drenthe Heath sheep and making wall-sized works for architecture.

Felted wool dyed with plants from a biodynamic dyer’s garden, planted in 2008 beside her natural dye lab, gives the studio its palette; the garden holds some of Europe’s oldest cultivated dye plants, madder among them. Commissions include the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, the Barnes Foundation, the Mingei International Museum and Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, while MoMA, the V&A, the Stedelijk Museum and LACMA hold works; pieces such as Guernica de la Ecología act as ecological manifestos.