The wonderfully textured textile paintings of artist Janice Stevens highlight the continual struggle between man-made objects and nature.
Featured Artist Natalya Aikens
I wish to use materials that are plentiful in this modern world, and yet are destructive to it when they are discarded. It’s my small way of helping and I hope to inspire others to do the same.
The Art of Color & Whimsy
Artsy Shark invited some artist friends to choose a piece of their delightful work to share.
Featured Artist Susan Beallor-Snyder
My current body of work, consisting of sculptures made from natural manila rope expresses my desire to express the challenges I have experienced over the past 30 years attempting to create art and preserve my identity as an artist and woman…
Featured Artist Ellen November
In creating a cartographic art quilt, my goal is to reimagine the way we look at a location from a geographic and historical perspective.
Featured Artist Emily Dvorin
I am challenging the original definition of basketry. I transform the ordinary into whimsical vessels, creating dense arrangements of familiar urban objects.
Featured Artist Boisali Biswas
In surface design, I use techniques like screen-printing, painting, printing, stamping, shibori, and embroidery to change a blank piece of material into something very exciting
Featured Artist Rhanna Nyman
They are designed to hang on your walls like art quilts, though my wall pieces are very different from quilts, both in appearance and technique, from traditional quilting.
The Art of Color
Enjoy this photo article as artist friends share their work and talk about the importance of color in their art.
The Art of Whimsy
Whimsy: capricious humor or disposition; extravagant, fanciful, or excessively playful.
Featured Artist K. Velis Turan
My pieces are quilted with “thread strokes” to add subtle color variation, texture and depth.
Featured Artist Connie Pickering Stover
I am mesmerized by the contrast between wild movement and quiet geometric shapes.
Featured Artist Susan Obrant
Colour thrives in my retinae. Nature is inspiration. To give back something new is a requirement. Each piece must be something I’ve never seen.
Featured Artist Sachiko Quinn
The foundation of each of my pieces is an intricate design created through the multiple-step wax resist method inherent to batik.
