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An introduction to Justin Bateman - pebble art
'If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.' Seneca,...
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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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- Apr 5, 2023
- 1 min
The Principality of Hutt River - an introduction and further links
The Principality of Hutt River, often referred to by its former name, the Hutt River Province, was a micronation in Australia. The...
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- Mar 29, 2023
- 1 min
The Buried Ships in San Francisco
Beneath the modern-day streets of San Francisco lie the remains of many sailing ships that brought people to San Francisco during the...
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- Mar 22, 2023
- 2 min
Leonardo da Vinci and his contribution to today
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and...
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- Mar 15, 2023
- 2 min
Spontaneity in art
When I was thinking about the subject of spontaneity, an artist immediately came to mind - Jackson Pollock – I had seen a video of him...
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- Mar 8, 2023
- 2 min
Spotlight on contemporary French artist Rémy Demestre
Rémy Demestre was born in Jonzac in Charente Maritime in 1990. He is a contemporary painter inspired by geometry in order to find a...
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- Mar 1, 2023
- 1 min
Art Explora Academy - online learning experience suggestion
Art Explora Academy is a 100% free online platform for learning and testing your knowledge on the history of art. There are 11 thematic...
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- Feb 22, 2023
- 1 min
Brazilian street artist Fábio Gomes Trindade
“Although I don’t consider myself a Black activist, I always wanted to portray Black women with their natural beauty in a majestic way....
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- Feb 15, 2023
- 1 min
Japanese artist known as avogado6
Pictures often have the ability to convey very strong and powerful messages simply where words would struggle. Very little is known...
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- Feb 8, 2023
- 1 min
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who was born on March 22, 1929, in Matsumoto, Japan. She began painting as a child but had little...
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- Feb 1, 2023
- 1 min
Tea art
Whilst exploring the art of decorating tea bags with Ruby Silvious , I came across another artist, Dara Gold, who also uses tea to...
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- Jan 25, 2023
- 1 min
The sculpture of movement in pause mode of Daniel Firman
Whilst reflecting on the subject of attitude, I stumbled across French contemporary artist Daniel Firman (born in 1966 in Bron, France)...
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- Jan 18, 2023
- 1 min
Malgorzata Chodakowska and her wood and bronze sculptures
"My fountains spread the pure joy of life. They are a combination of an element (water) with the raw material (bronze). In general, I...
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- Jan 11, 2023
- 2 min
The Teabag art of Ruby Silvious
Ruby Silvious is originally from the Philippines and she was educated in the U.S. and Asia. Her sense of fashion came from her maternal...
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- Jan 4, 2023
- 4 min
Rainbows - awe and wonder
A rainbow is created when white light is bent (refracted) while entering a droplet of water. The electromagnetic spectrum is made of...
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- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Stained glass windows by Marc Chagall at Tudely
I was lucky enough to visit All Saints' Church in Tudeley, Kent, England in January 2020; the only church in the world that has all its...
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- Dec 21, 2022
- 2 min
Ólafur Elíasson a Danish Icelandic contemporary artist
Born 5 February 1967, Ólafur Elíasson is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scale installation art employing...
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- Dec 14, 2022
- 2 min
Guinness World Records book
The Guinness Book of Records now known as the Guinness World Records is now the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements. It...
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- Dec 7, 2022
- 1 min
The Eden Project
The Eden project is an educational charity created to build relationships between people and the natural world. I visited The Eden...
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- Nov 30, 2022
- 1 min
Tom Price artist
Tom Price is an English artist born in 1973 in London who lives and works in Majorca, Spain. He obtained his degree from the Royal...
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- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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- Oct 19, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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