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We’re back from Scotland! It was an amazing trip and I saw lots of cool landscape, animals and architecture. As I was suffering overnight from some initial jetlag I came upon the art of Petah Coyne (more on that soon). In doing some research I ended up looking closer at the products and pieces of […]

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The Hallway Gallery in Jamaica Plain has a new show up right now, Katrine Hildebrandt. She uses paper cutting as her medium and she does incredible, ocean-inspired work. That’s seriously cut paper. She calls it Yupo Paper, which I had never heard about before. I quick spin through Google explained that it’s a synthetic, water […]

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I love art built in nature and on Pinterest the other day I came across Laura Ellen Bacon’s work from the UK. Her “Nests” are made from natural materials set in a way where people can interact with them within their surroundings. I love that you can’t really tell the difference between the leaves and […]

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Next week I’m having people over for a non-profit meeting on Monday night and, as I walked out of my door this morning I thought, I hope no one cares about all of the animal-related items around the house. We have a cowhide rug and a paper maiche rhino head, ram’s horn lamps and impala […]

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It’s been a crazy few weeks! We got back from Chicago and work, which is normally somewhat quiet around the holidays was anything but – more on that later! As a result I’ve been absent but it seems like my efforts to add SEO tags to my old posts is proving worthwhile – many people […]

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Anchorage, Alaska born Kate Carr is an amazing sculptor who is all about her materials, which oftentimes is textiles, fabric, felt and other materials I love. Felt Coils, above is cut felt sewn together onto a plywood backing. It looks to me like rings of a tree, which I’ve seen people wet felt before in […]

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I’m writing today from Chicago. We’re here for the Thanksgiving holiday with my boyfriend’s family and boy is it cold. It’s got me thinking about crochet, knitwear, felting, and anything that would warm my feet! I had sent myself an email last week of links to artists’ pages I found somewhere along the way (and […]

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Emily Dvorin is a self-defined sculptural basketmaker. She works in vessel format but uses recycled, upcycled materials that are commonly thought of as commercial products, including but not limited to wire, fabric, plastics, etc. She uses these materials to discuss overconsumption, “societal excess, and throwaway consumerism.” In using the vessel shape she ends up creating […]

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I work in a business where people are often rude to me and my colleagues – they think we’re an unnecessary cog in the wheel, and I get treated as such, not often – but enough. When I get to come home, blog about the beautiful and obscure, I not only feel better about myself but everything […]

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Neil is once again in for a win with the article he sent me on his recent trip back to America, to Rochester – Memorial Art Gallery has a phenomenal show up it appears, Extreme Materials 2, and many of the artists included in the show are using techniques and materials I’m digging. Once of […]