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Umbrellas in art
Umbrellas feature in multiple famous pieces of art and sculptures. Here are just a few. What others can you think of? Woman with a Parasol...
Little Moments of Awe and Wonder
With today's technological world it is very easy to stumble across awe inspiring, fascinating or simply positive oddities via the internet.
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- Oct 19
- 1 min
Shadow works of Rashad Alakbarov
Rashad Alakbarov (born Azerbaijani, 1979) builds structures from everyday objects that, when lit from a specific angle, cast shadows of...
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- Oct 12
- 1 min
Mr Doodle Lives in his art
U.K. artist Sam Cox, known professionally as Mr Doodle, has made his childhood dream a reality after spending the last two years (2020 –...
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- Oct 5
- 1 min
The Picassiette house of Raymond Isidore
The Picassiette house by Raymond Isidore (September 8, 1900 – September 7, 1964) is situated in Chartres, France and is made up of...
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- Sep 28
- 2 min
My Octopus Teacher - Film suggestion
'My Octopus Teacher' is about nature documentary filmmaker, naturalist, and founder of Sea Change Project, Craig Foster, and his unlikely...
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- Sep 21
- 1 min
Indoor clouds with Dutch visual artist Berndnaut Smilde
Dutch visual artist Berndnaut Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the Frank Mohr Institute in 2005 in Groningen....
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- Sep 14
- 1 min
Famous orange artwork
Orange has been used in art since the ancient Egyptian artists used an orange mineral pigment called realgar for tomb paintings. There...
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- Sep 7
- 2 min
The Watts Towers built by Sabato Rodia
The entire site of the Watts Towers with its towers, structures, sculptures, pavement and walls were designed and built solely by Sabato...
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- Aug 31
- 2 min
The metal sculptures of artist Darius Hulea
Darius Hulea (born 1987 in Alba Iulia) is a Romania artist who specialises in portraits and animals made from iron, stainless steel,...
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- Aug 24
- 1 min
Rob Mulholland - sculptor and environmental artist - mirror sculptures
Rob Mulholland is a sculptor and environmental artist based in the United Kingdom who exhibits throughout the UK and world-wide exploring...
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- Aug 17
- 1 min
Wood and stained glass sculptor Louise V Durham “LoVeD Glasswork”
Based in Shoreham-by-Sea, England. Louise V Durham “LoVeD Glasswork” creates stunning sculptures by Inserting Stained Glasses into groyne...
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- Aug 10
- 1 min
The butterfly dresses of Bibian Blue
Bibian Blue (Bibiana C Berenguer) is a talented fashion designer from Barcelona who comes from a lineage of creative jewel crafts makers...
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- Aug 3
- 1 min
Daniel Popper Human+Nature exhibition
South African artist Daniel Popper ( born December 22, 1983 ) creates fascinating large-scale sculptures. He is a multidisciplinary...
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- Jul 27
- 1 min
Sean E Avery CD and DVD sculptures
Sean E Avery is a teacher, writer-illustrator, sculptor and designer born in South Africa; living in Perth, Western Australia. Locally,...
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- Jul 20
- 1 min
Artist An Jung-Hwan
An Jung-Hwan is a Korean artist (born 1978) who creates stunningly realistic paintings of nature through a genre of painting called...
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- Jul 13
- 1 min
Lorenzo Quinn - Italian sculptor and 2D artist
Italian sculptor, Lorenzo Quinn is best known for expressive recreations of human hands. ‘I wanted to sculpt what is considered the...
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- Jul 6
- 1 min
Daniela Forti - glass artist
Italian artist Daniela Forti (born in Rome 1960) where she graduated from the School of Art. She studied and learned the techniques of...
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- Jun 29
- 1 min
Meggy Wilm - stained glass artist
Artist Meggy Wilm (aka Colorado Glass Works) creates colourful, whimsical stained glass art inspired by animals, nature and rainbows...
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- Jun 22
- 1 min
Gabriel Schama artist
"My work is driven by a desire to push this style as far as it can go, and to constantly seek new forms and compositions." Gabriel...
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- Jun 15
- 1 min
Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia - Rainbow balls
Serena Garcia Dalla Venezia is a Chilean visual artist who creates textile sculptures composed of hundreds of handmade fabric balls in...
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- Jun 8
- 1 min
The French Lochness monster
Huang Yong Ping was born on 19 February 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian Province, and died on 19 October 2019 in the 13ᵉ arrondissement of Paris....
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- May 4
- 1 min
Paper sculpture by Calvin Nicholls
Calvin Nicholls. Calvin is an artist from Lindsay, Ontario, Canada who, using simple tools, manipulates ordinary sheets of paper into...
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- Apr 27
- 1 min
Yulia Brodskaya paper art
Russian born Yuliya Brodskaya, (born in 1983, Moscow) is an artist and illustrator known for her handmade and detailed paper...
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- Apr 20
- 1 min
Australian cross-cultural project
In Australia We’ve dug 50,000 holes across sacred land. We dump 500,000 tonnes of fabric and clothing every year. Can we give our hands...
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- Apr 13
- 2 min
Shadow art and shadow artist Kumi Yamashita
Shadow art is a unique form of sculptural art where the 2D shadows cast by a 3D sculpture are essential for the artistic effect. There...
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- Apr 6
- 1 min
Diana Scherer natural textile artist
German born visual artist Diana Scherer lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in...
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- Mar 30
- 1 min
Land artist Guillaume Legros (Saype)
French artist Saype (real name Guillaume Legros - born Belfort, 17/02/1989) has made a name for himself since 2012 first by painting...
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- Mar 23
- 1 min
Patrick Commecy - murals
Patrick Commecy was born on July 26, 1956. At the age of 7 he moved with his parents to Cameroon, where he grew up until he was 18 when...
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- Mar 16
- 1 min
Jordan Sprigg Scrap Sculptor
Based in country Western Australia, Jordan Sprigg uses recycled metals found from retired machinery, scrap heaps and clearance sales;...
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- Mar 9
- 1 min
Simone Crestani - Italian craftsman-designer
Simone Crestani (Born 1984 in Marostica, Italy) is a contemporary Italian craftsman-designer who lives and works in Camisano Vicentino,...
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- Mar 2
- 1 min
The Giant Attacus Atlas Moth
Atlas moths are named after Atlas, the Titan of Greek mythology (due to their size). The Attacus atlas is found in a large part of...
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- Feb 23
- 1 min
The Fibonacci Sequence - A guest post by Tony B
So called after Leonardo Fibonacci who first described the sequence, numbers made by adding the previous two: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55...
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- Feb 16
- 1 min
Crocheted Corals
The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” project was started in 2007 by Australian born twin sisters, Margaret and Christine Wertheim. It was...
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- Feb 9
- 1 min
The Rainbow River - Caño Cristales
Located 170km south of Bogotá, three diverse ecosystems – the rocky Andes mountains, the sweeping Llanos plains and the lush Amazonian...
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- Feb 2
- 1 min
The auroras
The Auroras sometimes referred to as polar lights (aurora polaris), are natural light displays in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in...
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Tony B
- Jan 26
- 1 min
Churches carved from stone by Tony B
Why build a church when you can carve one from the very rock you stand on ?! The Church of Saint George Amhara region of Ethiopia, known...
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- Jan 19
- 1 min
Willow sculptures and more
Anna Turnbull is a fibre artist who draws her inspiration from the north Northumberland landscape, where she lives and works. After...
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- Jan 12
- 1 min
The diversity of Mars
My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets Mercury Venus Earth MARS Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Mars is the 4th planet...
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- Jan 5
- 2 min
Glass microbiology and Luke Jerram
Glass Microbiology is a body of glass work which has been developed by artist Luke Jerram since 2004. Made to contemplate the global...
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- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
Christmas Beach Art
Beach4Art is a family of 4 who use beach materials to create different beach art projects inspired by the beautiful nature in Devon, UK....
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
Squashy Sculptures
José Manuel Castro Lopez is a Spanish sculpture who hand-carves granite and quartz into fascinating fluid sculptures. Unusual and...
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- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
Toshiko MacAdam Textile artist
Toshiko MacAdam attended the Tama Fine Art Institute in Japan and then went on to study in Michigan, where she received her masters of...
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- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Nikola Faller - multimedia artist
Nikola Faller- master of sculpture, believes that art can not disappear but just change its shape…like everything else in nature. Nikola...
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- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
OKUDART
OKUDART is an internationally known painter and sculptor with a distinctive, colourful style which combines surrealism and street / urban...
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- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
Artist Ágnes Herczeg
Ágnes Herczeg is a Hungarian artist born in Kecskemét. Herczeg graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and studied textile...
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- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Fractals - A Guest post by Tony B
We all recognise squares triangles and circles but usually within our own manufactured world. Often nature appears to use a different...
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- Oct 27, 2021
- 1 min
The orchid mantris
This week we look at one of nature’s natural mimics the orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus). The orchid mantis lives in the rainforests...
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- Oct 20, 2021
- 1 min
The wire-mesh sculptures of Daniela Capaccioli
...try to catch the invisible and the impalpable.... give it form, colour, appearance and see it transform, appear, disappear. "Plasmare"...
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- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min
Artist Ran Ortner
Ran Ortner (1959 - ) was born in in San Francisco and raised in rural Alaska. He is known for his large-scale paintings of foaming waves...
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- Sep 29, 2021
- 1 min
Cold glass sculpture artist Jack Storms
Jack Storms is a cold glass sculpture who grinds and polishes glass rather than using heat to create stunning glass sculptures full of...
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