Showing posts with label artist profile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artist profile. Show all posts

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Frida Kahlo

Words from Frida Kahlo.

“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”

"I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration"

"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive" 

“My painting carries with it the message of pain.”  

“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you."


“Mai in vita mia
Dimenticherò la tua presenza.
Tu mi hai presa quando ero spezzata
E mi hai riparata
Su questa terra troppo piccola
Dove potrei mai voltare il mio sguardo?
Così immenso, così profondo!
Non c'è più tempo. Non c'è più nulla. Distanza. C'è soltanto la realtà.
Quello che è stato, è stato per sempre.”



"Never in my life
Will I forget your presence.
You've taken me when I was broken
And I have repaired
On this earth too small
Where could I turn my gaze?
So immense, so deep!
There's no time. There's nothing left. Distance. There is only reality.
What was, was for ever. "
 
(for T)


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Brandi Lee's Art: Matilda Stone on Etsy

My lovely and very talented friend Brandi has an Etsy shop called MatildaStone, and you should give it a gander. Here is a Treasury I made inspired by one of her beautiful paintings. She has a unique aesthetic, and she recently had a solo show here in Brooklyn. Keep your eye on this one.


rhinestone friendship cuff b...
$68.00

ACEO Original art "One ...
$5.00

Blue Pacific Ocean geometric...
$36.00

Ecofriendly needle felted gr...
$95.00

Kids Wall Dog Art 'Take...
$25.00

Mighty Asterisk
$18.95

1 Handmade Resin Kitschy Chr...
$12.99

Geometric Leather Necklace T...
$48.00

Plush - funky handmade doll ...
$42.00

Earrings decoupage -Colorful...
$10.00

Pumpkin Orange black beadw...
$25.00

Vintage Luggage .. Electric ...
$56.00

Dew Drops Sterling Silver Ea...
$17.50

Burgundy cropped jacket
$49.00

Recycled Glass Linden Leaf a...
$100.00

Nature Photography, burgundy...
$28.00

Monday, October 31, 2011

Artist Profile: Theresa Himmer

Iceland is just magical and cool.   
(This fact is thanks in part to Björk talking about faeries, Sigur Rós and my Brother thinking he wanted to go to college there when he was in middle school)
Artist Theresa Himmer makes it even more so.
She makes glitter graffiti installation art. Magic!!!

Have you ever seen graffitti this OverTheTop or amazeballs??? I think probably not.
Find Theresa and her work here: http://www.theresahimmer.com/

Waterfall #01
(The Mountain Series)
Maximum dimensions: 2,6 x 6,0 m
Area: 11,4 m2
Glacier #01
(The Mountan Series)

Sequins, plastic, plywood.
Maximum dimensions: 11,0 x 5,4 m
Area: 20,9 m2

Volcano #01
(The Mountain Series)
Maximum dimensions: 4,7 x 11,2 m
Area: 18,2 m2

All images and info from www.TheresaHimmer.com

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Artist Profile: Matou en Peluche (La nouvelle vague en peluche!)


Sam Battersby is Matou en Peluche.

In french it means Plush Tomcat. Sam runs the Matou en Peluche Etsy store, blog, and beautiful website under this name. With help from her partner, (sidekicks are handy!) she creates work that is at once sweet, sharp, and uniquely creative.

 Her art is inspired by flapper girls, elegant evenings, femme fatales, fat cats, and 50 foot birds. She creates whimsical prints, cards, postcards, and mini hand mirrors. Oh and did I mention she is a lovely person? We have struck up an Etsy friendship across the globe. Sam currently resides in Sydney Australia, is francophone, and a drawing MACHINE! (ouais, c'est vrai!)

Her aesthetic is one that I adore. She makes "images and designs that are both historically quirky and 21st Century."  I haven't bought her prints yet, only because I keep changing my mind about which ones I want!

Matou en Peluche is a one of a kind shop. They "are 'la nouvelle vague en peluche. (the plush new wave)." 

Dive on into the whimsical plush....nouvelle vague en peluche indeed!

Find Matou en Peluche here:












             
All Images and Descriptions (from top to bottom):

1) Queen Nefertiti Born in 1370BC in Egypt Queen Nefertiti is often referred to as "the most beautiful woman in the world".


3) Mermaid Art: Crustacean Cafe The lovely Jemima has a cup of tea and a chat with Miranda at the Crustacean Cafe. Gus and Phil are a little bored however by the girly chat.


5) The Great auk has spoken Words to sooth the troubled soul from the Great Auk himself.

6) Fashion Print: Yvonne This is Yvonne in her sea shell dress.

7) Black Gloves Black Gloves and an ice blue bow.

8) Rie

9) Robzilla  Robzilla!! My Goodness...be afraid be very afraid!!! 

10) Cleo  Cleo = winsom + wise.


Find Matou en Peluche here:


All art is used with permission. 
Artwork copyright © 2007 - 2011 Samantha Battersby
Purchase of this print does not include reproduction rights.