Portrait of an Artist | Hayley Sheldon | Luxe Interiors + Design

“I was thinking of creating a work that had a slow movement,” recalls the installation and display artist, “a piece you could contemplate or that had a hypnotizing motion you could get lost in. I wanted those feelings to come across.”

Her vision came to life in the form of decorative screens consisting of yarn handwoven in a wood frame. Their geometric shapes—squares, rectangles and half-circles— contain juicy colors like sherbet orange, flamingo pink and marigold yellow. On display in front of the windows at The Station, they add an airy element to the industrial atmosphere. “They carry and color light,” Sheldon says. “They’re almost like stained-glass windows.”

Working out of a home office in West Palm Beach, Sheldon begins each screen with a frame cut from a single piece of wood. Using a large needle, she then threads acrylic or wool yarn within the shape, overlapping for three layers. “It’s tight enough together so you can get a color field but loose enough so you get a translucent effect,” the artist explains. In addition to floating from a ceiling, the pieces can be assembled on walls using hanging hardware. “I also love to see them used more casually as an object—propped in a shelf or leaning against a wall,” she says. - Jennifer Pfaff Smith, Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine

Article by Jennifer Pfaff Smith

Photography by Sonya Revell

Photo Assistance by Dragi Stankovic