Erin Rosalie Thomas is a multi-media figurative artist best known for her wool paintings, created by felt-needling raw and dyed wool onto canvas. Her work explores the intersection of body language, communication, and touch, often through the lens of femininity and its associations with passivity and emotional nuance.

Her choice of material deepens the thematic resonance of her work. Fibres, typically found in clothing, mediate most human touch; skin-to-skin contact is rare, intimate and deeply felt. By using wool to depict the fleshy nude, Erin creates a sensory juxtaposition between the softness of fibre and the vulnerability of skin. The tactile nature of her work evokes nostalgia, sentiment, and a quiet interrogation of how we read (and misread) the feminine body.

Erin has always dipped in and out of textile art but began using wool in place of paint after moving into rented accommodation, where traditional materials became impractical. She started collecting wool used in aesthetic product packaging—originally intended for temperature control—and found a quiet poetry in repurposing it into art.

Erin studied BA Fine Art at Kingston School of Art, graduating in 2020. She has since developed her practise, exhibiting in several group shows and winning the ronapainting prize at the Oxford Art Society 2024 open exhibition. Erin is also helping coordinate the 2025 Young Artists exhibition with Oxford Art Society and runs the young artist critique sessions Get Your Crit Together in Oxford at Magdalen Road Studios.