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]]>O’Reilly discovered the magical world of woodburning in 2016 and never looked back. It all started when she bought a locally crafted cherry wood canoe paddle as a gift for her dad, and decided to have his initials engraved into it on her own after finding woodburning tutorials online.
This marked the start of a great adventure for O’Reilly, who’s always been a creative soul. She enjoyed painting for quite some time, but decided to trade canvas and brushes for wood and metal once she discovered the magical world of pyrography.
“I sought local connections to woodworkers who could create the wood blanks I envisioned for my art. Growing my pyrography skills alongside these talented woodworkers allowed me to become an expert in not only pyrography but also wood species and utilizing woodworking tools to create my own wood blanks,” she writes on her official website.
O’Reilly is committed to making eco-friendly works of art, and she usually uses fallen or sustainably sourced air or kiln-dried local wood slabs as her canvas. Nature is her biggest source of inspiration, but she’s also no stranger to making artwork inspired by architecture, landscapes, and popular culture.
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]]>Brooks has been passionate about art since her childhood years, but it took some time before she found her true calling. She tried using other natural materials as a canvas, including feathers, stones, and seashells, but something clicked when she started experimenting with dried leaves.
“Working with real leaves feels like collaborating with the forest itself… I’m enamored by the idea of taking what would otherwise decay and make it timeless – taking stories, memories, and precious places and immortalizing them on a canvas grown from the very soil of that moment,” she wrote on her official website.
(@katiebrooksart)After deciding to quit her job to pursue art full-time, Brooks poured her soul into the 100 Painted Leaves Collection, painting a new leaf each day. She’s always looking for leaves with a broad, smooth surface that will let her paintings shine. Each of her tiny paintings requires a lot of time and patience because she chose to work with an incredibly delicate and fragile canvas, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.
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]]>Schmid is a nature lover and fungi expert from Germany, who attracted 50,000 followers to his Instagram page with his expert mushroom knowledge. He fully deserves his claim to fame since he’s also a mushroom coach at the German Society for Mycology and a certified course instructor at the German Academy for Forest Bathing and Health.
Schmid learned everything there is to know about mushrooms while exploring the woods around Berlin, and he came up with a creative way to capture his adventures. He enjoys making artful displays with mushrooms that perfectly demonstrate their incredible diversity, using multiple different species in a single artwork.
In addition to sharing his work with thousands of followers, Schmid is also hosting workshops and retreats for all nature lovers who want to learn more about the fungi world. They’re available through his website Into the Woods, and he promises they’ll teach you to learn the basics, know how to differentiate between different species, and make your own mushroom mandala at the end.
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]]>Embroidery artists inspired by nature aren’t hard to find, but there are many things that set Vecchia apart from the rest of her peers. Her embroidery skills are so advanced that regular botanical art simply isn’t her thing, and she’s using a special technique to celebrate nature in all its shapes and forms through her brand Leveza Art.
The reason why Vecchia became such a huge sensation, with almost 140,000 Instagram followers and counting, is that you won’t find any hoops and fabrics in her art. Dried leaves are her preferred canvas, and she enjoys adding some branches to the mix from time to time, giving her art a natural feel that can’t be recreated any other way.
Another thing that helped Vecchia become a viral sensation is her decision to focus on one specific subject—the birds of Brazil. Her art lets them fly freely, in all their vibrant spirit, and many of her creations pay homage to endangered and threatened species native to her home country.
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]]>Fewings’ love for the sea can be traced back to her youth, and she discovered beachcombing while spending summers on the northeast coast of England with her family. Her love for nature eventually turned into an academic pursuit, and she got her degree in marine biology at Plymouth University.
This was just the start of her epic adventure, and she spent a year teaching volunteers about the marine world in Mexico, before heading to the Maldives, where she worked as a diving tour operator for eight years. She eventually moved to Cornwall with her husband, where her love for the ocean blossomed into something unique.
Cornwall (@lily_and_sea)Fewings collected an impressive collection of seashells during her honeymoon to southwest England and decided to set them into a frame. She still loves collecting shells, sea glass, pebbles, and other tiny treasures from the Cornwall beaches and arranging them into breathtaking works of art. Her friends and family were so impressed by her tiny works of art that she kept making more, and her brand Lily & Sea eventually became a full-time job.
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]]>This Tokyo, Japan-based artist manages to capture all sorts of wholesome moments onto a single leaf. Most of the time, Riane uses the leaves that fall from the tree as part of its life cycle, saving them from being crushed and allowing them to continue their existence as a piece of art.
According to Riane, her leaf art allows her to express “her unique sensibility and worldview” while focusing her creative efforts “on the beauty of people and nature, the activities of animals and children, and the sounds of children interacting.”
Riane studied drawing at Shinjuku Art Institute but ended up putting her art career on pause to work for a company based in a different field. However, that love for art never veined, and she ended up returning to it thanks to the encouragement of her kids.
After a while, Riane started sharing her works on Instagram and quickly amassed a significant following on social media. She also organized several exhibits of her leaf art in Tokyo and started offering classes for those who wanted to try out leaf art.
You can check more of her works below.
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]]>Each of Kurihara’s works consists of a base with intriguing patterns and twists, resembling a fruit found in nature but featuring elements of creative freedom. From them, beautiful flowers and other parts emerge, adding another layer of complexity to each piece.
On her website, Kurihara says that plants and their growth provide her with an endless source of inspiration. Sometimes, she even grows plants in her studio, observing each stage to get a better insight into the process.
“I take inspiration from the plant world with particular attention to forms and their geometric repetition, “Kurihara says about her works. “Every element of nature seems to repeat itself, but in fact, there is an infinite variety of it. I have the deep desire to make concrete the fruits represented in my mind and to be able to contemplate them through my own eyes.”
Kurihara, who is currently working out of her studio in Paris, France, frequently shares her new ceramic pieces on social media. Scroll down to check out more of them.
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]]>Inspired by this complexity, Hamlyn creates intriguing artworks that show the practice of pressing flowers in a different light. They feature inflated flowers, hand-sewn out of different materials, being pressed with a see-through acrylic plate.
It is a captivating sight, as the beauty and the liveliness of the flowers still shine through despite the fact that they are being “suffocated” by the weight of the acrylic plate.
“This idea of desperately trying to preserve and celebrate a moment in time is really interesting to me, particularly in our fast-paced world,” Hamlyn shared in a recent interview with Creative Boom. “As with a flower press, we take a memory and press it before it dies. Forcing it to preserve in time. This combination of memory, nostalgia, and time are fundamental concerns throughout this show and my wider work,”
Hamlyn, who received his MA degree in fine art at Chelsea College of Art, currently works out of his studio in South West London, UK. His works have been exhibited in art galleries and museums across the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and more. You can check out more of them below.
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]]>During the pandemic, Rachel Parri and Keith Kralik found themselves spending much time in their garden. They grew some beautiful flowers as a result and came to the idea to start pressing them and placing them in frames.
Being satisfied with the way their pressed flower artworks turned out, Parri and Kralik continued making more and sharing them on social media. They also started Flower Press Studio, through which people can purchase their works.
“Flower Press Studio allows us to get outside in the garden and get more involved with a local community of makers, florists, and flower farmers to express our authenticity using organic materials grown from our mother earth,” the couple shares on their website.
Flower Press Studio recently started expanding its business in order to offer people more ways to enjoy their pressed flower art. They are developing online courses in order to share their knowledge with others while also creating limited prints of the artworks. Continue scrolling to see more of them.
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]]>Our recent design inspiration comes from California-based illustrator Leah Goren. Zooming in on domestic life, Goren’s illustrations feature a healthy dose of houseplants and natural patterns. Collaborations include brands and publications like Anthropologie, The New York Times, Penguin Random House, Vanity Fair, and Urban Outfitters.
On top of her work as an illustrator, Goren also works as a surface pattern designer, which means her floral patterns can be spotted on an array of products including fabrics, ceramics, and even storage bins.
“I like making patterns because they repeat endlessly and I don’t feel restricted to containing my drawing within a box,” Goren remarked once in an interview with Spoonflower. “I’m always interested in home interiors, and I’d love to see my patterns on wallpaper or an upholstered chair or couch.”
Indeed, scrolling through her feed you can’t help but be inspired to freshen up your living space by introducing more natural elements to it. One might argue that plants make any space look beautiful. But it’s good to note that they also have a positive impact on your health and mood—a true win-win when it comes to rethinking our home life in the days after COVID-19.
Scroll for some inspiration.
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