Working with wool is the perfect medium for me because I love the playful nature of the final pieces, the soft and fluffy texture of the wool, and since I’m so bad at sewing, I can sculpt stuffed animals!
Featured Artist Sophie Kittredge
Born in Paris, France, I grew up in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. So I have fun mixing all the different cultural and artistic influences I was exposed to as a kid in my books.
Featured Artist Wendell Myers
My paintings are abstract landscapes. Within the language of landscape, I am using motion, light, color and energy to evoke an emotional state, to create a sense of mystery.
Featured Artist Jonathan Mandell
I have been producing tactile wall mounted panels and sculptures over the last 22 years for both commercial and residential clients. I think of what I create as being the juncture of painting, drawing and sculpture.
Featured Artist Helen Rudy
I am interested in combining the structured nature of my background into my work. I use a lot of geometric designs, repetition and patterns to create multi-dimensional pieces. I am keen to experiment with light to see how it affects the nature of the glass in different conditions.
Featured Artist Michael Soltis
When I approach a painting, I start by applying color and texture. I typically do not have a plan in place but allow images to emerge through the application process. I like the idea of creating or molding something out of what happens organically. Sometimes the piece takes on a loose, wild and energetic aesthetic, while other times something calming, layered and more precise takes form.
Featured Artist Anne Klar
Be it laundry hanging on a clothesline blowing in the wind, puffy quilts, an old barn, a field of flowers, colourful umbrellas, mother and child, a snowy night – all are made of clay. It is a medium that has proven ever forgiving. It allows me to take it wherever my imagination leads me.
Featured Artist Cindy Fort
An expression of worship, a piece that reveals a deep eternal truth, or a piece that simply leads the viewer into a deeper discovery of their own spirituality or the relationship God wishes to have with them – these are what you might discover in my works.
Featured Artist Kate Wood
At one point in the Bush, I was painting the same scene sometimes several times a day with the changing light and weather. It never looked the same twice. I continue with mountainscapes from around the state. I am fascinated by the shapes and light of the mountains and consider most of my work semi-abstract.
Featured Artist Jason Nelson
I also draw inspiration directly from the stone itself. I think that ‘truth to materials’ is more important in stone sculpting than with any other medium. Before I begin carving, I like to closely study a stone specimen in an effort to discover what might be trapped inside it.
Featured Artist Michelle Powell
Art is the only work I ever aspired to. My degrees are in doing and teaching it.
Featured Artist Lisa Cottone
I am a scientist and an artist. Though these two professions may seem disparate, I’ve created a harmony between them through the medium of silver crochet, which helped me to find my niche as a scientific artist.
Featured Artist Alex Colombo
She is passionately and tirelessly devoted to creating new, dynamic art that not only honors the past but also speaks to the changing times we live in. To this end, she is currently creating several inspirational art collections for products to present at the Surtex show in 2013.
Featured Artist Chas Sinklier
My goal for VivaChas! is to spread my passion for these interests and the images associated with them around and record stuff that interests me – oh yeah, and to support some folks in need.
