I stumbled across this necklace from Anthropologie on Pinterest today. If I were a Margaret Glew painting, I would wear this all the time.
necklace available here
Tag: art
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Artsy Fodder: If I Were a Margaret Glew Painting
Pieced Prism Necklace, Anthropologie 
Always On My Mind by Margaret Glew, oil on canvas, 96×72 -
Expressive Energy Harnessed: Margaret Glew
I have such a huge amount of respect and awe for artists who work in the abstract, especially gestural, expressive works like those of Toronto artist, Margaret Glew.
Animal Dreams, oil on canvas, 72×60 There is such an amazing amount of controlled chaos in each of Glew’s abstracts, they are fairly bursting with harnessed energy. The scribbly lines and forms give her work a childlike essence, yet if you’ve ever tried to accomplish excellence in abstract painting, you know ( as I learned in college! ) just how difficult it can be.
Untitled, oil on canvas, 48×48 After all, Picasso himself once said “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Pitter Patter, oil on canvas, 60×60 What may seem to a novice eye like mere scribbles and marks are placed yes, perhaps intuitively but deliberately. For Glew, each shape and line is a kind of shorthand. She’s created her own visual language, telling her stories in texture, color and gestural expression.
Untitled, oil on canvas, 48×54 
Untitled, oil on canvas, 48×48 And it is a story I could read over and over again! To see more of Margaret Glew’s work, please visit her website. Many thanks to Artsy Forager favorite artist Christina Foard for the introduction to Margaret’s work!
Featured image is Pitter Patter ( detail ). All images are via the artist’s website.
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Art to Inspiration: Pakayla Biehn
This blogging world is chock full of creative and inspiring people. I am so excited to participate in the collaborative blogging project, Art to Inspiration! Art to Inspiration is a monthly collaborative blogging project in which bloggers around the world post how the same piece of artwork has inspired them on the first Wednesday of every month. So let’s get started!
I was pumped when I saw the artwork inspiration for April, 2 Years, 264 Days and This Morning by Pakayla Biehn, an artist whose work I love and recently featured!
2 Years, 264 Days and This Morning, oil on canvas, 26×18 In my gallery days, one of my absolute favorite tasks was to help curate, design and plan how the work was hung in the gallery. Laying work out, figuring out how pieces relate and the best way for them to work together visually. So for my first Art to Inspiration, it felt natural to curate my own gallery of work inspired by Biehn’s piece.
RIGHTTORETURN(DONAUDELTA) by Markus Linnebrink, c-print, epoxy resin on wood, 60×72 
Floral Study by Kristina Bailey, acrylic on canvas, 60×48 ( via Gregg Irby Fine Art ) 
The Unending Amends We’ve Made ( Imperishable Wreath ) by Lauren Clay, Acrylic on cut paper,papier-mâché, wire, wood, 30x25x6 
Z.T. by Wil Jansen, oil on canvas, 40x30cm 
The Things We Miss by Lissy Laricchia 
Eggplant by Michelle Armas, acrylic on canvas, 30×40 ( via Gregg Irby Fine Art ) Markus Linnenbrink | Kristina Bailey | Lauren Clay | Wil Jansen | Lissy Laricchia | Michelle Armas
Visit the artists’ websites, linked above, for more inspiration!
You can find more information on Art to Inspiration here and if you would like to participate in the next Art to Inspiration, just fill out this form! Follow me and all the other Art to Inspiration bloggers on Twitter by subscribing here. Let the inspiring begin!All images are via the artists’ websites unless otherwise noted.
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Fragile Ambiguity: Kris Knight
Sometimes, in a world filled with sarcasm and cynicism, we can easily forget the vulnerability of the human spirit. How one wounding word can hurt and haunt us. Toronto artist Kris Knight’s portraits remind us that the strength we so often feign is not impenetrable.
Waves ( Augustus ), oil on canvas, 30×40 The pale pastel palette Knight employs translates to us the inherent frailty of our psyches. Though each subject takes a strong stance, often looking straight into the gaze of the viewer, their faces tell a different story. Beneath the facade, we see flushed cheeks, downturned mouths and eyes that seem to be bright with unshed tears.
Caught, oil on canvas, 12×16 Some wear netted masks, hiding in plain sight. While others at once stand defiant under our close attention, yet their eyes are pleading.
Winter Wheat, oil on canvas, 30×40 
Mischief, oil on canvas, 14×18 They are the faces of loved ones and strangers. People we think we acknowledge but who are longing to be known. To see more of Kris’s work, please visit his website.
Artist found via Escape Into Life.
Featured image is Run Deep, oil on canvas, 16×20. All images are via the artist’s website.
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Interconnected Brilliance: Hadley Holliday
I am not a knitter. Nor do I crochet, weave or macrame. I tried crocheting in my middle school Home Economics class and, let’s just say, I didn’t get it. And all that knit 1, purl 2 stuff? Just sounds like math to me, which is to be avoided at all costs. But I love woven textiles. There is such an innate beauty in the patterns and texture create. Los Angeles artist Hadley Holliday’s exhibtion, Warp and Weft at Taylor De Cordoba Gallery is weaving together a caliedoscope of color and pattern.
Sun Vault, acrylic on canvas, 63×63 ( via Taylor De Cordoba Gallery ) She is exploring the worlds of space and depth and the illusions created by overlapping shapes and patterns. There is a fantastic sense of movement and prismatic expanse to her paintings.
Blissed Out, acrylic on canvas, 54×60 ( via Taylor De Cordoba Gallery ) 
Zero Hour, acrylic on canvas, 36×42 ( via Taylor De Cordoba Gallery ) They seem optically illusional in nature, yet there is also an organic quality to them, reminding me of the intersecting lines and orderly nature of a spider’s web.
Sunshine Day and Night, acrylic on canvas, 54×60 ( via Taylor De Cordoba Gallery ) To see more of Hadley Holliday’s work, please visit her website. If you happen to be in Southern California, you can see Warp and Weft at Taylor De Cordoba Gallery only until this Saturday, April 7th. So get moving and see it this week!
Featured image is Sun Vault ( detail ), acrylic on canvas, 63×63. All images are via the Taylor De Cordoba website.
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Towing the Color Line: Matthias Heiderich
Recently I’ve been hesitating to feature certain artists’ work because though I’ve had them in my queue for quite sometime, I suddenly starting seeing their work popping up all over other blog sites. And the last thing I want to do is seem like a copycat. But then I said to myself, Artsy Forager, why should you let that stop you from featuring talent that inspires you? I answered, I shouldn’t. Simple as that. Case in point, Berlin photographer Matthias Heiderich.
Spektrum Eins series Heiderich has over ten series of images showcased on his website and any one of them are beautiful enough to be featured. But I’m currently in love with his most recent series, Spektrum Eins, so this post is full of his signature architectural loveliness.
Spektrum Eins Series He is a master at finding the most interesting buildings and composing their intersecting angles and colors into striking, graphic compositions.
Spektrum Eins Series His compositions are so simple yet so crisp, his colors so bright and bold. The architectural forms take a backseat to line, color and shape. Each photo is a celebration of simplicity.
Spektrum Eins Series 
Spektrum Eins Series To see more of Matthias Heiderich’s work please visit his website ( and I highly recommend you do! ).
All images are via the artist’s website.
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Attention please! Special New Feature Coming Tomorrow!
If you’re an Artsy Forager fan on Facebook & Twitter, you may have seen my little hint regarding a new feature coming to the Artsy Forager Facebook page. ( If you’re not following AF on Facebook and/or Twitter, it’s so easy! Handy little buttons in the right sidebar will take you right to the pages! ) Facebook fans know that the powers that be at FB have rolled out a new look for profiles and pages. Always one to look on the brighter side of things, when I changed the AF page over, I started thinking about how I could use the new format to further promote the artists’ work I love..
Annoucing the new Artsy Forager Facebook Featured Artist program!
Ok, I’m obviously not a graphic designer.. Each month a new artist’s work will be featured as the Artsy Forager Facebook page cover image, there will also be a special feature post devoted to that artist on the blog, a thumbnail of their work on the Artsy Forager sidebar, as well as fun tidbits featuring their work on Facebook & Twitter throughout their month! Are you excited?!
The inaugural artist will go up TOMORROW, April 1st, so stay tuned tomorrow for the big reveal!
PS– Due to an overwhelmingly positive response from the artists I contacted, Facebook Featured Artist spots are filled as of right now through November 2013. (!) First priority was given to artists with whom I have an ongoing correspondence or relationship. If you’re an artist who has been featured on Artsy Forager and would like to be a Facebook Featured Artist after November 2013, feel free to shoot me an email. Thanks!
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Artsy Fodder: Brantlers!
Artsy Forager reader Kim Carney creates these fantastic folk art sculptures, Brantlers, using recycled wood, branches and various found objects. Such a fun take on “trophies”!
Yellow Moose Brantler Check them all out on Kim’s website and let me know in the comments which one is your fave! I’m partial this guy.
Featured image is Painted Brushes Brantler. All images are via the artist’s website.
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Friday Faves: Yes, Deer
Hubby and I have been going through major winter cabin fever. Every weekend lately, it’s been either snowing or raining. We miss getting our hiking on and are ready to see some wildlife actually in the wild ( the diaorama at the local Cabellas doesn’t count ). There’s just something so magical about coming across creatures in the woods. Are you experiencing the itch to get outdoors and do some animal watching? Maybe these will help..
Guardian Lineage by Duy Huynh, acrylic on wood, 32×32 
Passage by Susan Hall, oil on panel, 43×51 
Yellow Stag by Rachel Denny, wool, polyurethane foam, wood, plastic & steel, 40x19x21 
Stout by Scott Belcastro, acrylic on panel, 20×20 
Bauxite Rose From Her Lifeless Sleep by Deedee Cheriel Duy Huynh | Susan Hall | Rachel Denny | Scott Belcastro | Deedee Cheriel
Happy weekend!
Featured image is by Corine Perier. All images are via the artists’ websites, linked above.
