Bits and pieces — see how our creatives use bits and pieces in their work – how they recycle, repurpose, use scraps in textiles, incorporate found items in collage and mixed media … the list goes on ….
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Three-dimensional design, for furniture and sculptural objects, within which I seek shapes and geometries that delight me. I also make furniture by transforming everyday objects to create a narrative and quirky humour. Drawing is also a way of looking. I like pencil and pen, coloured pencils and pastels. And it is usually urban places that interest me most.
H'arts in Mind is a mental health arts charity. See https://www.facebook.com/p.lauer58/.
Sandy Campbell is an abstract painter who creates multi-layered works that explore, materiality, surface and texture. Her work is firmly rooted in her experience of the declining urban landscape. The abandonment and decay surrounding her first studio in Luton influenced the development of the highly textured and complex surfaces she creates, as well as inspiring her 3D works using recycled materials. Exploring issues of identity and transformation, Campbell invites the viewer to absorb themselves in the sumptuous multi-layered surfaces before them, while questioning what lies beneath.
I have been exploring the techniques used by Degas, amongst others, in the 1800s. I paint on glass with acrylic paint and print off from that.
The results have a luminosity and vibrancy which has to be seen, and which take the viewer to new depths of appreciation.
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My name is Maureen and I am a Botanical Artist. I love to paint. Every day I pick up my paintbrush and delve into my many palettes of paint. I use layer upon layer of watercolour, adding depth and form as I go. It takes many hours and weeks, and sometimes months, before I am happy with the painting. Sometimes, I can just keep going with a subject, other times, I put it away and go back to it at a later date, with fresh eyes and inspiration.
I like to pick subjects from my garden, or my allotment, or from a walk in and around the village.
Nat is a silversmith specialising in one-of-a-kind jewellery pieces, all handmade using traditional silversmithing techniques. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins.
She is currently exhibiting at A Little Bird Told Me Gallery in Wendover and Primavera Gallery in Cambridge.
www.nataliamcintosh.com
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I love creating without limits as it is my happy place. I use fused glass as my main medium. All my pieces are one-of-a-kind and I love challenging myself, so commissions are my speciality!
I love to create colourful devoré and silk scarves often inspired by my photographs, and paper collage landscapes and cards.
With a passion for glass, attention to detail and a reluctance to back down from a challenge, Alex, from Sandridge based Heartwood Glass, not only creates bespoke handmade fused glass art, splashbacks and memorial jewellery, but following ‘school’ in Murano pushes the boundaries of heat and gravity to control, blend and shape molten glass in a flame.
What started out as an outlet for creativity, has progressed through continual development alongside glass masters from around the world, to crafting contemporary glass designs inspired by playing with light, nature and the desire to keep advancing within the glass medium.
Heartwood Glass brings ‘Glassy Love’ to all through individual pieces crafted with love and attention to detail, encouragement to get out and about in Herts and find “HeART Abandonments” or for those that want to try the medium through face to face, make at home or virtual workshops created to suit all ages.
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Heidi enjoys experimenting with colour, shape and pattern through the mediums of oil and acrylic paint, printmaking and collage. Her work is both vibrant and imaginative and shows influences from observing nature in its purest form to seeing the patterns that exist in our everyday environment.
Her inspiration and influences come from her experiences of living and working in Japan, Austria, Switzerland and travelling to some of the world's most culturally enriching places. She is particularly interested in how people and societies create, interact with and are influenced by art and design in different parts of the world.
With more than 20 years experience working in education, helping individuals to flourish in their own unique way, Heidi will encourage you to take risks, have fun and express yourself and your interests through her engaging workshops.
Follow Heidi at www.instagram.com/heidiwardart
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