Fernando Castillo

 

Incredibly evocative paper sculptures by Fernando Castillo. 

Hamster Wheels

My latest 'How-to' video is a hamster wheel that you blow, I love them, I hope you do. They are easy to make and great fun. 

Andy Amholst

Andy Amholst is an artist who works across many media, I found his beautiful poems (above) today and that set me on a trail of discovery. I hope you like what I found in Andy's portfolio.

Rogan Brown

Rogan Brown cuts incredibly detailed studies of microbes from paper.

"My choice of paper cutting as a vehicle for this exploration of our changing perception of nature is based on its accessibility and simplicity as a medium. The transformation of a banal, quotidian material into something visually extraordinary parallels and echoes the radical changes in our vision of the familiar world that science engenders.
But a recurrent theme in my work is the limitations of science when confronted by the vast scale and complexity of nature. Science's goal of containing and defining nature is constantly subverted and fractured by the sheer volume and variety of data that needs to be observed, analysed and classified. This is figured in the excessive detail that characterizes my work as I attempt to overwhelm the eye through the scale and volume of what I depict." Rogan Brown

Kate Kato I

Adoring the sensitive and phenomenal paper sculptures of Kate Kato a nature lover, observer and collector who is based on the Welsh Borders.

Studying III

Last paper challenge from this week.
I wanted to create something to celebrate Autumn and also to highlight the need to plant trees, for so many reasons, but to keep the colours of Autumn vibrant with variety of species. 

Studying II

My second attempt at transforming a sheet of A3 paper, resulted in a hedgehog.  This piece was again made using no glue but slotting the elements together.

Studying I

I have started my studies this week towards an MA. 

Induction week has been a paper challenge, where we were to take one piece of A3 and transform it using a variety of techniques. My first attempt was a grumpy looking man. Once cut out I used the scraps from around him, I made into his beard, moustache and eyebrows. 

As he still looked a little naked I added some tattoos to complete his look.

Lauren Rolwing I

Keeping in paper worlds these are some illustrative constructions by Lauren Rolwing an illustrator and graphic designer who produces wonderful posters and illustrations. I found myself visiting her webpage because of a poster that I love. 

Irene Banchero

Just love the warmth of these spheres by Irene Banchero and their lovely colours. today's inspiration. I am finding it quite difficult to find very much information on Irene, she works in many different media and her work often veers towards product design.

Martín La Roche Contreras I

Simple and beautiful, a cup and saucer by Martín La Roche Contreras.

Patti Roberts-Pizzuto III

Patti Roberts-Pizzuto's stunning stitched paper works.

Patti Roberts-Pizzuto II

A house form is high in the visual vocabulary of Patti Roberts-Pizzuto. Patti's works are calm, created over time layering papers with painting and hand stitching.

Mary Button Durrell

Mary Button Durrell makes sculptures from tissue paper and flour paste. Shapes like giant loofah's or wasps nests, they are fabulous. Mary's latest works are moving away from the natural colour of the paper into explorations in very subtle colour they are wonderful! (thank you Oh jealous one)

Mathilde Roussel

Mathilde Roussel's Muse sculptures, made from paper and glue, explore the way we imperceptibly change every day as if we were changing skin like a snake. Our skins flake away and so unlike in Mathilde's sculpture we are not left with an outer casing that we have shed. Mathilde's sculptures are an interpretation of a skin used, a trace of passing time and a memory.

Hannah Bertram

Australian artist Hannah Bertram works on painstakingly time consuming and detailed works of art. I love her pierced bills and envelopes, her work is epitomised by last years installations entitled 'the silence of becoming and disappearing'. For me, it is an exploration of life and its sometimes lonely and quite demise.

Lulu Allison I

Lulu Allison makes delicate, transient pieces of work, cut from newspaper crossing headlines, adverts and features that are themselves transient in our consciousness." ...Most of my work still lies with the unfixed, such as works in newspaper put up in the wild, town or country. They last a short time, a temporary intervention in spaces decorated by sprayed graffiti, spilled paint, decay, the slow changing forms of plants."

Matthew Daren Shlian

Paper engineer and artist Matthew Shlian makes incredible structures, we are still surrounded by snow, so I love the crystal like forms that Matthew has sculpted. I understand now that mastery of such a simple material as paper, creates basic three dimensional knowledge that can be applied to fashion furniture architecture and many other disciplines, it is invaluable.