Bruce Johnson

"Bruce Johnson's current ceramic focus is on a technique called ''copper flash'' raku. He creates this work by applying a copper matte glaze to a bisque-fired clay piece. The pot or vessel is then re-fired to the right temperature, removed from the kiln and immediately submerged in a container of combustible materials such as sawdust or shredded paper. As the materials begin to burn, the fire reacts with the copper glaze, producing a vividly colored finished product."

You can see more of his work at http://www.brucejohnsonclaystudio.com/

Natasha Wozniak

"My designs combine the essence of traditional Asian jewelry with the sophistication and dynamic energy of life in a modern city." - Natasha Wozniak

You can see more of her work at http://www.natashajewelry.com/

Toni Frissell

Toni Frissell, or Antoinette Frissell Bacon, (March 10, 1907 - April 17, 1988) was an American photographer, known for her fashion photography, World War II photographs, portraits of famous Americans and Europeans, children, and women from all walks of life.

Jill Allen

These ceramic pieces are by Jill Allen. She creates small ceramic and wire sculptures that reference tools and devices. You can see more of her work at http://www.accessceramics.org/.

Jennifer Khoshbin

These sculptural works are by Jennifer Khoshbin. You can see more of her innovative work at http://www.jenkhoshbin.com/.

Nicola Tyson

"Nicola Tyson explores the possibilities of figurative painting with conflicted yet controlled female forms. The bodies she creates are both desirable and monstrous and seem to have the capacity to disassemble themselves at any given time. Certain parts look as if they were morphed into one another describing seamless twists and manipulations. The figures are often faceless, demanding an extreme subjectivity. Other paintings suggest multiple viewpoints. Tyson places her figures against an ambiguous ground, 'environments' where they register the frame and allow it to engender their very substance. An intense but subtle use of color gives the work a surprising blunt, matter of fact edge" - Friedrich Petzel Gallery

Carles Codina

Carles Codina is an author of a number of jewelry books, including Jewellery and Silversmithing Techniques as well as being a metalsmith himself. You can see more of his work at http://www.codinaofebres.com/

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess!

Steven McPherson

"For over 15 years Steven McPherson has made and used books in his art works. His diaries, journals and notebooks are a growing wunderkrammer library that ordinarily describe events of the everyday and uniquely exist as part book, part sculpture.

These re-claimed photo albums and note books are transformed through a process of collecting and positioning matter, of significance and otherwise. Each double page is a space to be filled with lists, words, prose, image and object - placed and replaced - posited and edited until relationships are formed, meaning merged and accounts described. This process can take from a day to months to complete, and combines to form the bloated tome of personal identifiable and un-identifiable histories.

McPherson’s obsessive nature and bibliophilic leanings have spawned a relationship with books that has gone beyond that of his journals and have lead him to use the book as matter and material, of sculpture and installation. From concrete bookshelf tombs - to a plateau or ocean of open books on the floor of gallery space in London, he has and continues to investigate the idea of the book as a potent symbol for a wider search for understanding" - Centre for Fine Print Research

You can find more of his work at http://www.stevemcpherson.co.uk/.

Niki Ulehla

Niki Ulehla is the artist of the above jewelry. To see more of her work go to http://nulehla.googlepages.com/index.html.

Lois Epperson Gale

This unique encaustic work is by artist Lois Epperson Gale. You can see more of her work at her gallery Condrad Wilde Gallery (http://www.condradwildegallery.com/).

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Jennifer Maestre

"My sculptures were originally inspired by the form and function of the sea urchin. The spines of the urchin, so dangerous yet beautiful, serve as an explicit warning against contact. The alluring texture of the spines draws the touch in spite of the possible consequences. The tension unveiled, we feel push and pull, desire and repulsion. The sections of pencils present aspects of sharp and smooth for two very different textural and aesthetic experiences. Paradox and surprise are integral in my choice of materials. Quantities of industrially manufactured objects are used to create flexible forms reminiscent of the organic shapes of animals and nature. Pencils are common objects, here, these anonymous objects become the structure. There is true a fragility to the sometimes brutal aspect of the sculptures, vulnerability that is belied by the fearsome texture.
To make the pencil sculptures, I take hundreds of pencils, cut them into 1-inch sections, drill a hole in each section (to turn them into beads), sharpen them all and sew them together. The beading technique I rely on most is peyote stitch." - Jennifer Maestre

You can see more of her work at http://www.jennifermaestre.com/.

Alexy Titarenko

These eerie images are by photographer Alexy Titarenko. You can see more of his work at www.alexeytitarenko.com/about.html.

Sarah Morpeth

"I work mainly in paper and textiles - increasingly within a book format, being in love with that structure.
The things that drive me are many and various; I find inspiration in my obsession with British films of the Forties, in poetry, philosophy, science fiction and stories. I am also addicted to stationery - to labels, tags and postcards. Visually the imagery I use often comes from nature and the landscape that surrounds me. I find there is usually a considerable conceptual aspect to what I do - but I don’t need it to be obvious to the viewer. I value not only the conceptual but also skill in making and aesthetic qualities. " - Sarah Morpeth

You can see more of her work at http://www.sarahmorpeth.com/

Jane Adam

"Rather than exercising total control over the outcome, I work with the metal to create forms such as curves or cracks. Anodised aluminium offers unique opportunities for surface colour and texture, and I enjoy its structural limitations, finding myself forced to find original solutions to forming and assembling the work.
I am interested too in the mathematical order of organic forms. I begin with balanced geometrical proportions - though these will be stretched and distorted - and use sequences to create structures. The resulting jewellery comes alive when it then finds a wearer, forming a sensual relationship with her and becoming part of the expression of herself". - Jane Adam

You can see moreof her work at http://www.janeadam.com/

Nancy Selvin

This intriquing work is by Nancy Selvin. You can see more of her work at http://www.mudfire.com/

Nancy Selvin’s work is imbued with a quite nostalgia, warm earth tones, parched yet with an inherent vibrancy. They are still-life compositions of bottles and books, formed in rich terra cotta and finished with painterly strokes of slips and under-glazes and enigmatic shards of poems, quotes or recipes. “I like the concept of referencing functional issues, but don’t want to be bound by function,…By dealing with the bottle abstractly, I am able to transcend reality.” The sculptures conjure images of elixir containers or tomes of ancient spells and rituals by their faded, fragmented labeling. The surfaces are painterly with a rough eloquence of colored layers and transcribed memories. Selvin strives for her work to possess a “quality of sparseness, leaving much unsaid, hinting at, but without a direct narrative.” - Baltimore Calyworks

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