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Matthew Scissorhands: Matt W. Moore’s Cut Paper Collage
February 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
Source: mwmgraphics.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: mwmgraphics.com via Margaret on Pinterest Before I made mosaics, I made collages, and sometimes a work like this one by Matt W. Moore gives me a hankering for cut paper. I also have to dig a guy who calls this series Matthew Scissorhands. He also [...]
John Dahlsen: An Artist’s Palette Picked From Ocean Debris
February 7, 2012 By 6 Comments
Source: johndahlsen.com via Margaret on Pinterest John Dahlsen‘s environmental art came to my attention via Pinterest. Originally he was a landscape painter in Australia, and as he began collecting driftwood on the coastline to make furniture, he discovered a staggering amount of debris, much of it plastic, washed up on the shore. He collected 80 [...]
UnaOdd and Tangerine Tango-ing
January 31, 2012 By 9 Comments
Source: unaodd.blogspot.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: etsy.com via Margaret on Pinterest UnaOdd (aka Lynn Lunger) has been in the sisterhood of orange for the time that I have known her, and 2012, the Pantone Year of the Tangerine Tango is made for her. Recently, we had [...]
Dora Ficher and What the Bees Told Her: Vibrant Encaustic Art
January 24, 2012 By 6 Comments
It is serendipity to discover an artist online who turns out to live in my part of the world! The art of Dora Ficher compels me with the color and texture and vibrant energy, almost buzzing with the bees that bring forth the medium of encaustic, beeswax. Recently, I checked a book out [...]
Margaret O’Rorke(b. 1938): Incorporating Light and Water Into Clay
January 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Source: louhallceramics.blogspot.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: google.com via Margaret on Pinterest Source: culturame.it via Margaret on Pinterest Margaret O’Rorke describes sitting in her garden and showing a friend a vessel she had made, holding it up to the light, and being struck by the beauty of the translucence, and wanting to pursue [...]
Otto and Gertrud Natzler: Volcanic Orange and a Life Together in the Ceramic Studio
January 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
Source: portlandart.net via Margaret on Pinterest Untitled Oval Bowl, c. 1940 Ceramic with Pompeian glaze; 3.75 x 5 x 1.5 inches; Collection of Carol and Seymour Haber Photo Dan Kvitka Source: icollector.com via Margaret on Pinterest Natzler pottery mark Source: cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com via Margaret on Pinterest Gertrud and Otto Natzler, in the studio. Otto [...]
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh(1864-1933): Artist of Glasgow
December 26, 2011 By 2 Comments
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (1864-1933), was a Scottish artist who worked in gesso, textiles, and metals. She and her sister Frances MacDonald enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art at the turn of the 20th century, and some of the first women allowed to attend classes. Later, the sisters left school to start their own studio [...]
A Margaret of Many Names: Margarete Heymann Lobenstein and Finally Grete Marks(1899-1990)
December 19, 2011 By 5 Comments
My quest to find Margarets for my Pinterest Board led me to an artist who had a proliferation of names, variously Margaret, Margit, Margarete, or Grete, and Heymann then Loebenstein(her first husband who was killed in a car accident in 1928), then Marks(her second husband). It took me awhile to realize this was all the [...]
