Cheryl Janis is an abstract wool artist in Missoula, Montana. Her practice is an exploration of wool’s secret language—how fiber yields to pressure, heat, water, and time—and an experiment in process to reveal what’s rarely seen: the deep textures of land, weather, sea, and the night sky. She works in layers like geology and cloud, feeling her way with hands and body until the form appears. Janis builds a firm wet-felt base, creates separate nuno-felted webs, and needle-felts surfaces into layered reliefs that suggest river lines, root systems, chrysalides, and star maps. Materials ethics are central: humane wool and Tussah/peace silk from welfare-focused sources. The aim is calm intensity—quiet, tactile portals that record cycles of pressure and release and remind us that human bodies weather and mend like the earth itself: mirrors, not separate.
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