CEO | Multi-Award-Winning Creative Social Entrepreneur | Felt Maker | Workshop Facilitator | Founder of Hyppanie Essence and Felt CIC

Through creativity, craftsmanship, humour, and environmental innovation, I create experiences and solutions that reconnect people to themselves, to each other, and to the planet.

Originally from France and now based in Brighton, I have dedicated more than 25 years to the art of felt-making. My journey began in 2000 when my passion for colour therapy and wellbeing led me to study felt-making with City & Guilds in London. Working with wool, texture, and colour transformed my confidence and inspired me to share these empowering creative processes with others.

Since 2012, I have facilitated creative workshops for people of all ages and backgrounds, teaching traditional wet felting and needle felting techniques with mindfulness, wellbeing, and self-expression. My workshops are known for creating spaces where people feel relaxed, inspired, connected, and proud of what they create — often discovering creativity they never believed they had.

I am the creator of the multi-award-winning, trademarked creative experience, Felt a Fanny™, a bold and joyful needle-felting workshop experience designed for hen parties, birthdays, team-building events, youth groups, and wellbeing programmes. Combining humour, empowerment, anatomy awareness, mindfulness, and creativity, these workshops spark connection, laughter, confidence, and meaningful conversations.

Alongside my creative practice, I am the founder and CEO of Hyppanie Essence & Felt CIC, a circular-economy social enterprise developing environmental solutions using human hair, wool offcuts, and textile waste. Our mission is simple: transform waste into a resource.

By collecting hair and fibre waste from salons and communities, we create felted mats that can support:

• oil spill absorption
• soil regeneration
• erosion control
• water retention
• gardening and agriculture
• sustainable textiles and wearable art

I believe innovation can emerge from the most unexpected materials — and that communities working together can create powerful environmental change.

Today, my work bridges:

• creativity and wellbeing
• art and activism
• circular economy and education
• humour and empowerment
• local action and global environmental thinking

I regularly collaborate with community organisations, women’s networks, youth programmes, environmental initiatives, and educational spaces to inspire practical, creative, and regenerative solutions for healthier futures.

Together, we can create systems that waste less, connect more, and honour both people and the planet.

Let’s build those changes together.