Living in Tokyo often means crowding into packed subway cars, being herded down busy city streets, and listening to an array of noises coming at you from all directions. In all the chaos, it’s nice to know there is somewhere I can go to escape this barrage of the senses and regain a sense of […]
May Giveaway: Rolled Canvas Print from Large Format Posters.com!
The generous folks at Large Format Posters.com are sponsoring this month’s giveaway with a 16 x 20 photo canvas print! Photo canvas printing has been gaining in popularity over the last few years and you really get an artistic feel from this format. It’s also great for printing your own original artwork. I particularly like […]
Geof Kern: Photography
“Geof Kern stands among the most awarded American photographers. With an unfettered imagination he worked for the most creative magazines and ad agencies. His very distinctive work is a combination of rationalism and conceptualism, inspired by “post-modernist” painters. Geof Kern works on a storyboard before shooting, creating images with a particular cinematographic mood and capturing […]
Tiffany Bozic: Painting
“Tiffany Bozic is a self-taught artist currently living and working in San Francisco, California. Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. Having grown up on a farm in Arkansas, she was inspired by the natural world at an early age. Blending her external observations with the […]
Richard Mosse: Photography
Born in 1980 in Dublin, Ireland, New York based photographer Richard Mosse has an MFA (Photography) from the Yale School of Art, a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldmisths, and a BA in English Literature from Kings College, London. Mosse comes from a family of artists, “My grandfather was a sculptor, my uncle is […]
5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 2
1. Laura Wheeler Waring – May 16, 1887 – Feb. 3, 1948: Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Waring attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1914. Waring was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship and studied Expressionism and Romanticism at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. Much of Waring’s work was focused on […]
Eric Joisel: Origami
Born in 1956 in Paris, France, Eric Joisel has been creating his incredible origami sculptures since 1983. Joisel’s first exhibit was at Espace Japon in Paris in 1987 and he became a professional folder in 1992. Prior to working in paper, he studied drawing and sculpting and worked in clay and stone. Joisel prefers creating […]
Peter Lippmann: Photography
Peter Lippmann is a New York born still life photographer who, though born in New York, has been living and working in Paris for the last 15 years. He has collaborated with the most famous French brands (Cartier, Guerlain, SFR Telecom, SNCF Rail, Pierre Gagnaire), as well as international brands such as Flora, Nicolas Feuillatte […]
Sandra Dieckmann: Illustration
Born in Oldenburg , Germany in 1983, Sandra Dieckmann urrently lives and works as a Freelance illustrator and Manager for the RSPCA in East London. Dieckmann studied fashion design in 2006 and eventually earned a degree in Graphic Information Design from the University of Westminster in London. “My work eternally explores and expresses my personal […]
John Chamberlain: Sculpture
Born on April 16, 1927 in Rochester, Indiana, John Chamberlain is an American sculptor best known for his works made from automobile parts. Chamberlain grew up in Chicago and attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. From 1955-56, he studied at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. “His early welded-iron sculpture was […]
Marina Richter: Illustration
Born in 1962 in Moscow, illustrator and printmaker Marina Richter (Richterova) graduated from the Art and Craft College in Moscow, where she studied miniature and iconography and book culture and illustration. She has lived and worked in Prague since 1983. In 1990, Richter completed studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design (Prague), specialising […]
Lindsey Carr: “The Augmented Animal” @ Roq La Rue Gallery
Lindsey Carr is an artist living and working on the coastline in the South-West of Scotland. Many of her subjects however, tend to be from more exotic locations and her wanderlust is expressed in paint rather than travel. Her work is strongly influenced by European and Chinese natural history paintings and their subjects. She sometimes uses […]
