Francis Kilian, Maria met de anjer, oil painting 2011, 1.40 x 1 m Featuring artists I admire every month without featuring my sister Francis Kilian seemed unnatural. For all through my life Francis has been my shining example of an artist who lives and breathes her own art. The women she has been painting all [...]
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Kathryn Clark: a politically motivated fiber artist
Kathryn Clark is a fiber artist from San Francisco, CA. I met her online, in 2010, and we have been digital friends ever since. We did a fun project together last summer, after which she took off doing very interesting, intelligent and politically inspired things with textile. Her recent series of pretty abstract quilts deals [...]
Women, wit and daily life: an interview with Caren Garfen
Caren Garfen, Wafer Thin, screen print and embroidery on linen Women, daily life, the use of text and humor in artworks: Caren Garfen is about all the things I like. I met this London artist at Origin – the # 1 British craft fair – last fall. I wrote about her work earlier here. [...]
Ollie Zwitserlood, knitwear
Ollie Zwitserlood is a producer of beautiful knitwear who is curiously little known in Holland. Which is why she sells almost her entire stock at Origin in London, each fall. I have known and admired her since 1990 when I was a journalist and wrote an article about Dutch knitwear artists for Elsevier. You can [...]
Anja Brunt, designer, Holland: an interview
Happy faces by Anja Brunt Anja Brunt is a graphic designer from Amsterdam. Somewhere, at some point, I came across her happy faces made from old blankets. I was in awe – lots of people make crafty things out of blankets nowadays, but none as elegant, as simple and as beautiful as these. By now [...]
Why make art? A guest post by Lari Washburn
Lari Washburn is an artist from Maine (USA) who writes one of these rare, authentic blogs. She does not post feel good stories day in and day out: instead she honestly shares what is on her mind – and what comes out of her hands. She has great taste in art and many of [...]
Tilleke Schwarz, textile artist, Holland: an interview
Always, 2007, 70 x 54 cm, all pictures provided by Tilleke Schwarz Tilleke Schwarz is a Dutch artist who does embroidery in a unique, personal style that is reminiscent of graffity, sketchbooks and samplers. I first saw her work at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York in 2008 (in an exhibition called: [...]
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