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Joanne Haywood is a remarkable young British jewelry designer.
Organic, edgy, and kinetic.
Great contrast of materials, construction, and color.
Experimenting with fiber techniques in metal and visa versa.
Contact Joanne for commissions and to represent her work.
Continuing my virtual tour of Norway . . .
Pikene Bak Slottet is the dream of 4 women clothing designers based in Oslo.
I love the dramatic simplicity and playfulness of their knit designs.
Norwegian artist Marit Helen Akslen creates sublime statements in textiles.
With a deep fascination in the multi layered meanings of men's shirt collars,
she fashions assemblages and installations of stark beauty.
Contact Marit for commissions and study tours.
The Artwork of May Bente Aronsen
Pure Genius.
Norwegian artist May is creating new territory in fiber arts.
Her installations are formed from cut and molded felt, and manipulated polyester.
"The artists from Original T-Bag Designs live in a settlement located outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Their homes are bits of tin and wood nailed
together and they have had no formal schooling.
But what they do have is grit and imagination and a desire to make their
families' lives better. The artists use recycled tea bags as their canvases
- and they are painting themselves out of poverty.
Used tea bags are collected and dried in the African sun. Then they are emptied of leaves and carefully ironed. Finally, each tea bag is painstakingly painted. They work mostly at home during these early phases so they can care for their families while they work. Sometimes the little ones help by emptying out tea leaves."
Karren Brito
I don't know where Karren has gone, but she's created a great blog Entwinements,
based on her one-of-a-kind wearable art of the same name.
Shibori queen that she is, I hope she's busy knotting, stringing, and dyeing more
glorious pieces. Her blog is a wealth of info for shibori tecnique, with great photos.
