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Modernized Folk: Lisa Congdon

We have come so far from what we once were.  Humanity’s beginnings were so simple, but it seems we have become incredibly distanced from so many of the practices and traditions that were once essential.  Perhaps that is why…

Design Foraging Mixed Media Photography

Friday Faves: Firebugs

Fire is fascinating.  At once necessary and dangerous.  Delicately beautiful and vigorously potent.  It lives and breathes.  It is no wonder that artist’s embrace its beauty and harness its power.  Take a look at these artists who are using…

Daily Artsy Sculpture

Caged Birds Sing: Kate McGwire

Birds are creatures meant to soar.  They inspire us to reach new heights ourselves.  Those avian characteristics are what make London artist Kate McGwire’s work so poignant and powerful. McGwire uses fallen feathers to create sculptures reminiscent of birds…

Abstract Art Artsy on Escape Into Life Mixed Media

Artsy on Escape Into Life: Casey Matthews

I absolutely love watching the evolution of an artist’s work.  And the latest round of paintings from abstract painter, Casey Matthews blew me away.  They are unmistakably hers, but she continues to grow in her use of color, elegance…

Daily Artsy Paintings Still Life

Divine Delights: Olga Antonova

I’m a firm believer that anything you eat will taste better served on pretty china or a lovingly decorated table.  The work of Russian born artist Olga Antonova celebrates these every day objects, elevating them using her technical prowess…

Daily Artsy Figurative Paintings

Complexity of Simplicity: Gigi Mills

Dance is one of the few art forms requiring no materials, only ourselves.  Santa Fe artist Gigi Mills, a former dancer now self-taught painter, transfers her dancer’s fluidity and grace into her compositions. Mills’ work focuses on simplified forms,…

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Friday Faves: Street Cred

Henry David Thoreau said, “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”  Street artists take that idea quite literally, by taking art out of the isolating artistic environments of galleries and museums, bringing the art to a public…

Daily Artsy Figurative Photography

Becoming a Wallflower:  Cecilia Paredes

As many of you know, my husband and I are currently living in a new locale every three months.  Each new place has its own personality and part of the excitement ( and scariness! ) of our journey is…

Daily Artsy Mixed Media

Salvaged Surfaces: Valerie Roybal

When was the last time you wrote a hand-written letter?  Or read a book made of paper instead of on your Kindle?  Wrote a check? As we shift closer and closer to becoming a paperless society, it seems that…