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Meet Brodie Gosselin a woodworker based in Canada. He loves to create coffee tables and wall art using things he finds in nature. He first started using epoxy to fill holes and gaps in wood, but began experimenting with adding leaves, pebbles, wine corks, and more into his work. The finished pieces look like leaves floating down a stream or...
Gabriela Martinez is an artist that specializes in making embroideries. She has made embroideries features everyone's favorite yellow family since 2015. Martinez takes her time when creating her embroidered handmade scenes, making sure each one is done to absolute perfection. Of late she has also been using felt to give them a beautiful background color that matches perfectly with the...
Philadelphia-based artist Caitlin McCormack uses crochet to create skeletal looking creatures. Her eerie (and sometimes creepy) looking objects clash against the soft materials, creating powerful and thought-provoking pieces of art. McCormack works from her studio in South Philly, where she lives with her two cats. Her website states that she "crochets to forget the world, in the chaos of her...
Printmaking is best known for its unique look and is being used by various artists from around the world. But many people cannot afford this due to very expensive cost of a printing press. Open Press Project, founded by Martin Schneider, is the first 3D-printed etching press and aims to make printmaking accessible to everyone. Through this project, everyone who has access to a...
Amy Jandersevits, a doll maker who lives in Wisconsin and owns the small business “A Doll Like Me," wanted to create something that will inspire children with special conditions to love themselves and their bodies for what they are instead of struggling to look as “normal” as possible throughout their entire lives. With this in mind, she started making...
Agata Oleksiak, AKA Olek, is a conceptual artist that, through the use of crochet, aims to add a dash of color, life, and energy, to the world around her. Her works include sculptures and installations such as crocheted bicycles and inflatables. She has covered buildings, sculptures, people, and an apartment with crochet and has exhibited in the United States, United...
New Zealand artist, Fleur Woods, creates intricate stitched paintings using fabric, gouache, and ultimately - embroidery. Creating from her studio gallery in the heart of rural Upper Moutere, and drawing inspiration from flora and nature, her process was learnt through trial and error. Partly trained and partly self-taught, Woods has always loved textiles and threads. And through her crafty work,...
Chinese-American artist, Windy Chien, takes a simple knot and elevates it into a work of art. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child's hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. "Due to my ethnicity, love of fringe culture such as punk rock, and uncommonly audacious...
Lisa Lee is a crafter from Canada, who makes "leather monsters." Her artistic journey began back in 2012 when she decided to produce objects to love for over 60 years. Since then, her little animals appeared in Art Galleries, music videos and in the homes of many children and adults. “Hundreds have been made, painstakingly, one at a time in...
For paper artists, all it takes to make an amazing piece of art is a pair of scissors and some paper. And Danish paper artist, Marianne Eriksen-Scott Hansen, knows best. For years, she's been making extraordinary paper flowers, adding 50 to 60 layers of papers to each of her pieces and cutting through delicate details. Graduating from The...

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