Rebecca Varon has a rich and diverse background in music, film, and theatre, but it was the arrival of her daughter that inspired her to begin exploring the world of handmade crafts. What did she find? Wool. And with it, she discovered the lovely softness, joy, and creativity of needle-felting. Rebecca began designing and producing gentle and beautiful treasures that inspire imagination. Eventually, she received thousands of orders for her angels, fairies, mermaids, gnomes, playscapes, and wall pieces. She created and shipped her work to nearly every continent around the globe.
Her wool pieces are purchased as gifts for blessings, birthdays, holidays, and for many wonderful reasons. Some pieces help a person recover from illness, and others memorialize a loved one who has passed. Rebecca creates wall pieces that portray stories of friendship between people and sometimes between animals, whether they live on the land or in the sea. Her wool art delivers friendship, understanding, and love around the world.
Rebecca has taught felting workshops, and her art has been displayed at many locations, including two years of exhibitions for the winter holidays at the Oakwood Premier Tokyo Midtown. And her work has raised thousands of dollars for Japan's Habitat for Humanity.
In How I Felt, she describes the inspirations for her pieces while expressing her most important goal: heal the world one fairy at a time.