Maria Friese
Artist – Practitioner in Craniosacral Energy and Bodywork – Dynamic Art Therapist – Mentor for Creative Transformation
I am Maria, a woman deeply connected to art, healing, and the power of transformation.
For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to the ancient textile technique of felting — a method that, for me, connects us back to the roots of our humanity. Through my own artistic process, I developed a unique way of working with wool fibers: shaping them into poetic forms that carry emotion, presence, and power. My work is a dialogue between hand, heart, and soul.
I was born in Germany and have lived and worked in southern France, near Toulouse, since 2005. From 2006 to 2018, I exhibited my textile sculptures internationally and taught professional felting courses across Europe, North and South America. In 2013, I received the “Young Designers” award from Ateliers d’Art de France for my monumental wall hanging Cycle — a piece that still speaks deeply to my soul.
But art, for me, was never just form or beauty. It has always been a portal for healing and inner truth. After years of immersing myself in the creative process, I realized: the same energy we use to create art is the energy we use to shape our lives.
This insight led me to deepen my path — I became a practitioner in dynamic art therapy and in craniosacral energy work (Cranio 5D). Both approaches allowed me to witness the deep potential within us all to heal, to transform, and to reclaim our inner strength. I’ve lived this myself. After navigating many of life’s challenges — motherhood, isolation, financial struggle, and moments of deep doubt — I found my way back to my essence.
Today, my passion is to accompany others on their journey.
To help them make their life their masterpiece.
Whether through art, coaching, or mentorship, I create safe spaces where people can reconnect with their essence, transform old patterns, and rediscover joy, clarity, and creative power.
Through my mentorship program “Mastering Patterns – Unleash Your Creative Power”, my training in “Creative Healing Work with Art and Felt”, or during transformative retreats, I offer guidance and inspiration rooted in my own lived experience.
Art, for me, is a sacred act — a bridge between the visible and invisible. It teaches us to listen deeply, to feel, and to trust the natural rhythm of becoming.
Every felted sculpture, every workshop, every shared moment with my clients is part of a greater vision:
To leave behind a legacy of light, transformation, and beauty.
To inspire others to rise into their truth.
Maria
– 🌿 A woman who is not afraid to take risks, again and again, in order to grow, to inspire, to awake and to transmit.

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Cycle
A work about transformation, remembrance, and creative legacy
by Maria Friese
Cycle is a tribute to the eternal rhythm of life — to the sacred process of becoming, changing, creating.Il reflète les cycles naturels qui façonnent nos mondes intérieurs et extérieurs :
It reflects the natural cycles that shape both our inner and outer worlds:
Seed – Growth – Transformation – Blossoming – and Return.
It is about metamorphosis. About the moments when something breaks, only to give way to something new. It is the breath of evolution. The silent pulse of life. The creative journey of the soul.
A seed falls into fertile soil — seemingly small, yet carrying infinite potential.
It roots itself in the dark, begins to rise, stretches toward the light, transforms.
It blooms. And through that bloom, it shares its essence, its beauty, its truth.
And then, it sows again.
This cycle is not just nature’s way.
It is also the cycle of every human being who dares to create — to live, to transform, to leave a legacy.
I was born in East Germany — a place shaped by limitations, transitions, and broken systems. A country that no longer exists. And yet, I am deeply grateful for what I received:
Not comfort, not ease, and not luxury — but contrast.
Not certainty, but change.
Challenges that asked me to remember my own power, to awaken my creativity, and to shape a life of inner freedom.
Cycle Cycle is a personal and collective memory.
It carries the wisdom that, even when worlds break apart, something new is always waiting to be born – something better. As this is nature law.
We can all find that seed inside us — the source of security, peace, and power that no outer system can give or take.
From that place, we can shape new worlds. We can rise into truth, live with compassion, and leave a legacy rooted in inner freedom.
This work is an invitation to remember:
You are the seed.
Your are the soil.
You are the blossom.
You are the one who sows.
You are infinite.
Biographie / Training and professional experience
2000 – 2004 Textile design studies in Schneeberg / Germany
2003 – Training in textile design – Atelier 44, Dresden / Germany
2003 – Training in felt techniques – Annette Quentin-Stoll, Weinböhla / Germany
2003 – 2004 Training in textile design – Création Baumann, Langenthal / Switzerland
2005 Move to France
2006 Registration beginning of artistic activity at the Maison des Artistes, France
2009 Training in Dyeing with plants
2012 Workshop with students from the textile design section ENSCI – les Ateliers, Paris
2013 – 2015 Workshop with students at the University of Toulouse – Fine Arts & Applied Arts Department, Toulouse
2015 – 2019 Trainer at the Training Centre LAINAMAC, Felletin / France
2014 – 2019 International trainer in felting techniques (Germany, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Italy, Holland, Argentine, Canada, United States…)
2017 artist residency in the headquarters of DHG in Prato / Italy
2018 Collaboration on the creation of a show costume with Coline Vergez for the la Compagnie Carré Blanc
2018 Training in “Dynamic art therapy”, Institut Cassiopée in Chatou/ France
2019/2020 Training in cranio sacral energy work with Henrike Baumgartner, CranioPowerClass, Austria
2021 Inspirational artistique travel to Granada (Alhambra) / Spain
Awards
2022 Finalist of the World of WearableArt Award, Wellington/ New Zealand
2013 Winner of the competition “Jeunes Créateurs” of the professional organization of crafts “les Ateliers d’Art de France”, Paris / France
2013 Second prize of the competion “100g, un poids – une unité” during the European Felt Days, with special mention for creativity, Felletin / France
2007 First prize in the competition “Feutrez-nous un mouton!” of the felt museum, Mouzon / France
Exhibtions
Décembre 2017 au Février 2018 – Exposition individuelle au BAZART à Saint Antonin Noble Val / France
April 2016 – Exhibtion “TAF” with Ariane Mariane/Paris in Clermont-Ferrand in the Centre Anatole / France
May 2015 – “Architecture Textile”, la NEF, Montpellier / France
December 2014 / January 2015 – “A Pas Feutrés”, l’ATELIER des Ateliers d’Art de France, Viaduc des Arts, Paris
September 2014 – Salon “Maison & Objet”, espace CRAFT, Paris
2014 – 2016 – Exhibition “Black Sheep – the darker side of felt”, National Center for Craft & Design, Sleaford, Lincolnshire / Great Britain
2014 – “CENT MOTIFS”, Galerie Collection, Paris
2013 – “Inspiration(s)-Feutre !”, Saint Leu Art Expo, Saint-Leu-La-Forêt / Paris
2013 – “Mirabilis Incognita” au Salon “Tendances Créatives”, Toulouse
2013 – Salon “Maison & Objet”, Paris
2012 – “Carrousel des Métiers d’Art et de Création”, Louvre / Paris
2011 – “Rêveries feutrées”, Viaduc des Arts / Paris
2011 – “Vous avez dit feutre?”, Felletin / France
2008 – Legal exhibtion of contemporary textile art at the salon “ARTISA”, Grenoble / France
Publications
My art work is published in the following books:
- PASSION FILZ/ FELT PASSION by Ellen Bakker & Ricarda Assmann, Octobre 2013; ISBN 978-90-818476-6-7
- Worldwide colours of felt by Ellen Bakker, June 2016; ISBN 978-90-825378-0-2
Articles about my work in newspapers:
- “Il était un fil” N°15, Septembre 2013 (France)
- “ATELIER D’ART” January/February 2014 (France)
- FUN N°3, 2014 (Germany)
- PASSION fil N°24, 2014 (France)
- Journal de l’Atelier N°5, 2014 (France)
- Burda Style N°3, 2015 (International)
- Journal Midi-Pyrénées Patrimoine 2015 (France)
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