gustav klimt

klimt. you know who it is....

iojii & swarvy

fang lijun

i first came across fang lijun way back in the nineties in amsterdam i think. being in the nascent time of the internet i'd seen little and knew eben less about contemporary chinese art. i loved the colour and the joy of the figures and had this image on the wall in my study right up until two weeks ago.

sneaks

kill alters

emilio nanni

he doesn't say much about his work, emilio nanni, but maybe that's because he does a lot of different work. i couldn't walk by this tho....

tica douglas

kurun warun

kurun warun - you've got to love this!

etienne gelinas

etienne gelinas - is it a map, a meditation on space, and asemic inscription? or all three and more?

woolly tank

i can't think of a better way to start the week than with a woolly tank. and if you find yourself at a loss then learn to knit - this could be you!

the bug vs earth

weaves

takahiro kimura

in takahiro kimura's other life he works in animation. how great to see someone able to jump from one thing right into another

pierre gonnord

i've often said, and o absolutely believe it, that you can tell almost instantly if an artists has made the effort to look at art, to study the craft if you like. and that's the feeling i get with pierre gonnord. there's a quality to these that says their maker has put his time in and i thank him for that...

salami rose joe louis

eszter bornemisza

ester bornemisza raises the bar for textile art. these are breathtaking. i could go on and on (and on and on and on...) about the poor profile of textile art in the uk. but i shan't. just look at bornemisza's work....

donna ruff

you could, if you wanted to, describe donna ruff as a textile artist. you could, but it wouldn't describe the half of it....

jakuzi

sampa the great

jennifer stegmann

i do feel sometimes that it feels like i'm trawling the internet for images of blue. with texture. and while that may or may not be true i couldn't overlook this by jennifer stegmann. all the texture. all the colour. not much online about her beyond that. love this tho.

evan j de silva

keeping on with the ukelele vibe check this out - it's both profoundly depressing (for all thumbs players like me) and at the same time restores my faith in the world. i have the tab for this but when i play it it sounds like a cat has fallen into my ukelele! beautiful tone, beautiful touch  - can't get tired of watching this.

haji basim

linocut using xcut xpress

been an age since a craft post. so here's this one (note - third of a series). i actually own one of these xcut machine and i love it. note though that the long bed he shows doesn't come as part of the xcut package so you need to order it.

raku inoue

in addition to be great motivational advice for the bored, even if i'm ambiguous about picking flowers just to make something, you've got to love these insects by raku inoue. i couldn't embed the link but i'd highly recommend watching the video attached

the du-rites

gorgeous bully

ali banisadr

the linked article says far more about ali banisadr than i need to but looking at these it ticks all my aesthetic and art history boxes without really needing to do either.

jeffrey milstein

much beloved of cheap documentaries images of what the world looks like from above have never lost interest for the public. jeffrey milstein takes that and steps it up a big gear. check it out - these images are sumptuous