Great mirrors

You can find these at RianRae.

Myung Urso

"I enjoy working with natural materials, fabric, fibber paper, wood, glass and stone in combination with precious metals. The essence of each material has its own character and offers many unique and different shapes, colours, patterns and textures." - Myung Urso

To see more of her unique work go to her website.

Joe DeCamillis

"Old books and other discards give direct physical connections to the subject matter I study in my work, especially considering the way I discover them in my travels and wanderings. I still love the treasure hunt -- the quest for interesting things on the side of the road or discarded along a footpath -- be it concrete sidewalk, dirt trail, or the strewn banks of a body of water. I also seek in flea markets, junk shops, and thrift stores, but my favorite hunts happen roadside.
Weathered artifacts give me a tangible link to my past experiences, my heritage, and the roads we've come down as a society. Perhaps we feel the pull to touch things in museums because the physical sensation of touch helps us to better experience our own connection to the relics of our culture and our history. It links us to our place in whatever part of the world the museum has captured. I know that working with found objects enhances my ability to create this personal connection during the creative process in ways that just painting or sketching onto a flat plane cannot." - Joe DeCamillis

To see more of his work go to his website.

Emma Williams

"I coil onto a press-moulded base with a white stoneware clay, and use a variety of clays to make my pinched pebble forms - a white stoneware, white earthenware and porcelain. This helps to produce a range of blue, green and purple shades from the dry matt barium carbonate glaze I use (coloured with copper carbonate). Copper oxide inlaid into the textured areas and splashed on underneath the glaze also creates strong blue, purple and metallic colours." - Emma Williams

To see more of her work go to the Sea Pictures Gallery.

I love this chair...

Paolo Roversi

These striking portraits are by artist Paolo Roversi. To see more of his work go to his website.

Dick and Dianne Muller

These beautiful leather bags are each hand-crafted by Massachusettes artists Dick and Dianne Muller. To see more of their work go to their website.

Natalie Pudalov

These whimsical illustrations are by Israeli artist Natalie Pudalov. To see more of her work go to her website.

Sandra Noble Goss

These intricately etched metal sculptures are by Canadian artist Sandra Noble Goss. She incorporates a wearable element in each of these pieces. To see more of her work go to her website.

Yoko Izawa

"When immersed in creative activities I feel that the sense of beauty and value within my culture surfaces and moulds my work. For my means of expression, I feel more comfortable when the work has a quality of ambiguity or transience.

My interest has been for sometime in containing, covering, or wrapping things. The search has been for something elusive. The function and material nature of jewellery does not concern me as much as the presence and feeling of an object.

Veiled jewellery reflects my assumption that although certainty is often required in modern society, ambiguous expression has been the most distinctive characteristic found in Japanese values and religious beliefs." - Yoko Izawa

To see more work go to the website.

Lynette Haggard

"As I work, I may be guided by a thought, perhaps an idea, a sensory cue, memory or emotional response. The painting process can be both additive and subtractive (painting, adding paper, found objects, painting with wax, fusing, embedding and introducing other materials, or removing material by scraping or sanding). " - Lynette Haggard

To view more of her Los Artefactos series along with other work, go to her website and her new blog.

Marilyn Moore

"I have been intrigued with baskets for many years. Thinking about what can be placed in the basket, what gives life to the inanimate object of the basket, informs the way that I look at my work. The basket is the container of things needed to maintain my life, utilitarian as well as beautiful. Memories, memento's of my own life process, are kept in the baskets that I make and also collect. As I look at each basket they bring back a place and time, a part of my progression as a person and as an artist. Putting ideas into the basket as I work on it has become as important as design and color to my aesthetic sense. Using color to express an idea or even just a mood is a means of expression that evolves like the slow processes that I use. While very time consuming, this allows time for contemplation and investigation into the basket form and ideas that I wish to reveal as the work grows into it's finished form. An ancient art form, used in many cultures for ceremonial purposes as well as for functional household uses, it remains my way of linking myself to the continuum of basket artists past and present." - Marilyn Moore

To see more of her amazing work go to her website.

Steve Jacobs

These photographs are by artist Steve Jacobs. To see more of his work go to his Photo.net site.

Alex Stisser

"The playful forms of Alex Stisser’s bright, monochromatic sculptures resemble the chunky objects which spark childhood imaginations – plastic play food, life savers candy, brightly colored barbells or a submarine’s periscope. Their gestures, when examined from different angles, recall familiar interactions, like those of mother and child, loud gawking teenagers, or a tumultuous couple." - Traver Gallery

To see more of his work go to the Traver Gallery.

Dorothy Napangardi

These oil on Belgian linen paintings are by Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi. To learn more about her and her work go to Crown Point Press.