Emily Paluska's paper flowers might be delicate, but as opposed to the real thing - they're meant to last. According to Paluska, flowers are the sort of natural glue that keeps us connected to where we come from and where we’re going.
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With flowers being a constant theme throughout her work (with the occasional mushroom and fern leaf), her inspiration...
Kate Shaw's landscape paintings are part real, part surreal. Exploring the contradiction between our inherent connection to the natural world and continual distancing from it, her work is greatly inspired by the world around her.
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Based between Melbourne and the US, Shaw travels the globe to find inspiration. “Most of the time I really need to experience a place...
Aurora Robson describes herself as an environmentally conscious artist, working predominantly with plastic debris. Known for her sculptures and installations made of repurposed plastic waste, she hopes to help restrict the flow of plastic into our oceans.
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A founding artist of Project Vortex, an international collective of artists, designers, and architects who also work extensively with plastic debris, Robson has...
Zaria Forman documents the alarming effects of climate change in pastel colors. Stunning in their sheer realism, her landscape paintings manage to capture the many shades of blue, highlighting the extraordinary beauty of icebergs.
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With well more than 200k fans on Instagram, her works have caught the attention of both the online and offline community, appearing in publications like The...
For creative duo JUDiTH+ROLFE a piece of paper provides an endless source of inspiration and resourcefulness. While Judith is the artist and maker of the two, Rolfe is the behind-the-scenes and logistics guy. Together, they create unique paper art that has garnered both online and offline attention, having been exhibited throughout the US.
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With a background in architecture,...
Anne ten Donkelaar's art has a refined beauty to it. Inspired, as well as influenced, by nature itself, her art pieces (are they collages, sculptures, installations or something in between?) are composed of real flowers, the occasional preserved butterfly or bumblebee, and paper representations of nature that she finds in vintage books.
These materials are collected from a variety of...
Victoria Rose Richards from South West Devon, UK is a 21-year-old artist who creates beautiful embroidery that showcases the hidden patterns of cultivated farmland.
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Her artistic journey began back in 2018 when she pulled out her grandmother’s old embroidery tin. Although she suffers from chronic pain and Asperger’s syndrome, she is constantly learning new embroidery techniques.
The lifelong artist explains that
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It's hard not to be amazed by Stephanie Redlinger's paper art. Working primarily with paper, specifically fine crepe paper, she handcrafts flowers, plants, and mushrooms with highly realistic results.
“I’ve always loved paper,” she told Ballpitmag. “I love the tactile feel of good paper. The smell of old paper. The myriad forms paper can take. I also love that paper...
Textile artist Nicola Henley hopes to draw attention through her art to the delicate balance of nature and the inter-dependence and connectivity between ourselves and our natural environment. A delicate balance between weaving, embroidery, and print, her artwork features birds surrounded by a seemingly abstract landscape.
“I am continually inspired by the natural world but in particular birds and their...
Erica Nardone, better known as Cold Water Grom on social media, is a woman who creates art made of ocean plastic found on the beach. She lives in New Hampshire, and according to her Instagram bio, she is the lover of cold water, surf, gulls, art, photography, dogs, groms - and clean beaches.
During her beach walks, Nardone likes to...
