cecil touchon

arguably more structural in some of his collage work, which i like, but i love this by cecil touchon

andrea pramuk

andrea pramuk - with whom i will never argue on the subject of the colour blue. luminescent!

vive la fête

cartography

isn't just about the stereotypical view of maps. cartographer dan coe built up this image from lidar data. more on that story and how to buy this image here

la main

matias aguayo & the desdemonas

amparo de la sota

i'd tell you more about amparo de la sota but my spanish just isn't up to it. beautiful textile work

hans hartung

be warned - if this image by hans hartung is your cup of tea then you'll be wanting to look at another, and another, and another....

happy meals

golnaz fathi

say what you like about golnaz fathi but shy of work won't be one of them. i am beguiled by these....

benoit furet

every so often i'll come across something that makes me say - no, you could teach me for a hundred years and i couldn't do that. looking at this from benoit furet just makes my head spin

the named

the dwarfs of east agouza

sigrid artmann

sigrid artmann gives precious little away online but her images are everywhere. it can be easy to look at some of them as not calligraphy but they always, always are!

khyam allami

walter rast

looking at the images of walter rast i want to look closer and closer just to see what he's doing. so much narrative in these for me!

the mouse outfit

christian hetzel

christian hetsel - i was never not going to like this. and his vcommitment to mixed media work is worth paying attention to

messer chups

nils okland

sol lewitt

this is a perfect post for me on a friday. if you're ever stuck for a bit of something to do look at sol lewitt. there's always something there you can say to yourself - i'll have a go at that!

silvia muzzarelli

silvia muzzarelli, about whom there is very little information but whose work is all over pinterest is really pushing the boundaries of textile, particularly quiltmaking. have a search - be inspired!

catherine clarke

catherine clarke - all about the texture. note to self - learn about this encaustic business!

el anatsui

el anatsui - he does it all

linocut - reduction

i don't do much linocut any more because my arm's wrecked and when i do i much prefer hand colouring because it's simpler. and it doesn't mess with yout head as much! but this is a lovely wee video about the reduction process as well as the planning, time and commitment it takes to make this sort of thing.

electric girl

poorgrrrl

rosalie dace

haven't had anything on here re quiltmaking for a dog's age so here's rosalie dace. she's one of those people who, if i'm talking to a quiltmaker, i pull out some images of. if they're keen and don't just want to sew squares together (and nothing wrong with that) i get to watch their eyes widen!

sonja bittlinger

big bold pieces by sonja bittlinger. she's also a florist which is always a winner with me

kellora

filmed just up the road, and it's nice to be at the stage of life where i can say - check out this band, i know one of their mums. brilliant!

lina victor

at first glance, shamelessly influemced by eduardo paolozzi (and i can't grumble about that, lina viktor maybe a bit too obsessed with being in her own pictures for me but that's the age we're in. that said i'm loving the use of gold. and her blue, of course!