Sam Hall

"Over the years Sam Hall has developed a distinct vocabulary of mark making on his pots, from which he is constantly culling and continues to craft. Some of the most reoccurring of the “Hall marks” include; dripping slip, Gouges and grooves inscribed in the clay and a crackled effect that highlights the textural concerns in his approach. The colours in Hall’s work are decidedly natural and muted aside from the occasional small red slash, or gold enamel embellishment". - Ceramic Art London

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

Paula Scher

”These are absolutely, one hundred percent inaccurate,” Paula Scher declares of her colossal map paintings. Then, after a pause: “But not on purpose.” Another pause: they’re actually ”sort of right.” And therein lies their bracing paradox. Scher’s sites—Manhattan, Israel, and India among them—are instantly recognizable. Scanning the allover expanse of the canvases, you might easily pick out the swath of Central Park, the void of the Dead Sea, the dot of Mumbai. But they are also highly interpretive. The colors and graphic styles allude to loose, mostly media-fed impressions. This buzz might well distract from the fact that Scher’s source images are bona fide maps, which she copies with easygoing care—a glance at the map, a stroke of the brush, and so on (there’s no grid transfer here). But just like a tourist who takes a wrong turn despite an alternating glance at the map and step of the foot, Scher sometimes gets lost, misspelling a city’s name, shifting a border, diverting a river. And when that happens, she gladly lets the lapse go. "History is rife with human error, not to mention shifting borders, and after all, the source map is already a fiction." - Jennifer Liese

To see more of this work go to her website.

Jean Shin

"Chance City is made up of thousands of discarded scratch-and-win lottery tickets that have been arranged into an urban complex, constructed as a house of cards. Embodying the failed hopes of ordinary people, the worthless lottery tickets become building blocks for monumental, yet temporary structures. While no glue was used to make these towering and precariously-balanced edifices, they are sturdier than they look. The structures, literally held up by gravity and friction, are symbols of the American Dream representing how labor, money and resilience defy the odds of a fragile existence." - Jean Shin

To see more about this installment along with her other work go to her website.

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Bobby Neal Adams

"Age Maps - two photographs of the same person, from different periods of time (child and adult) are spliced together. In this fusion a jump-of-time is established at the tear." - Bobby Neal Adams

To see more of this work along with hsi other series go to his website.

Bettina Speckner

"While creating her work, Bettina Speckner uses pearls, corals and diamonds as well as plain coloured stones, sometimes marked by small faults, which however endow them with traits of their own. Quite often the artist employs even seemingly banal but peculiar every-day items, forging the sublime and the profane with great creative strength into a new poetic harmony.In her work she is particularly fond of photographs. Sometimes they are old and show bygone places or people of former times, quite often however the jewelry­-artist uses photos she took herself of trunks, flowers, lonesome lanes or landscapes. To turn photos into gems, the motives are etched on small metal plates or burned on enamel. By this only they become part of an individual composition: precious metals, diamonds, coloured stones and objects found begin to lead lives of their own. Pat­terns and ornaments arise." - South Karelia Museum

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

Lillianna Pereira

"The language of myth allows a story to be a part of a wider universal context. Although these stories and archetypes may resonate very closely with me on a personal level, their creation derives from collective material and their power lies in the meaning and the broader truths that myths convey. Culled images from magazines, books, and newspapers are manipulated and reassembled in order to activate the archetypes that lie therein. I never start a piece with particulars in mind, serendipity and the personal unconscious guide the composition. The personal becomes collective and conscious once the stories start to emerge." - Lillianna Pereira

To see more of her work got to her Flickr stream.

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Emmy Ludwig

These photographs are by artist Emmy Ludwig. To see more of her work go to her website.

Jane Chavez

Jane Chavez combines traditional coiled basketry techniques, innovative stitching and silver metal work in creating her horsehair baskets. To see more of her extraordinary work go to her website.

Lennox Dunbar

These mixed media pieces are by Scottish artist Lennox Dunbar. To see more of his work go to Open Eye Gallery.

Jennifer Falck Linssen

"The foundation of my artwork lies in the ancient Japanese paper and textile traditions of katagami and katazome. My artwork takes the stencil (katagami) and recontextualizes it by exploring the sculptural possibilities of the handcarved "stencil" in and of itself. This combination of katagami, basketry, and metalsmithing is a unique and contemporary take on ancient traditions." - Jennifer Falck Linssen

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

Jenny Gray

These oil paintings are from the "Paintings from Print and Prints from Painting" series by Oregon artist Jenny Gray. To see more of her work go to her website.

Kat Cole

Artist Kat Cole shapes found metal, silver and copper into tiny structures. Houses, streetscapes, and neighborhoods have become her signature. To see more of her jewelry along with her sculpture go to her website.

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Carol Sinclair

These mixed media sculptures are by British artist Carol Sinclair. To see more of her work go to her website.