Deborah Kruger
Deborah Kruger, Chapala, Mexico Deborah Kruger’s inspiration is taken from bird migrational patterns. Kruger’s work is a story, interwoven with…
Neville French
Sumptuous-lavish, luxurious, opulent, magnificent, resplendent, lush, lavishly… These words only begin to introduce you to Neville French’s……
Eleanor Bolton
Sailors, Scouts and Girl Guilds all know about knots, now Eleanor Bolton uses historical knotting and coiling techniques to make contemporary…
James Hart Dyke
The more British Artists I interview the more often HRH The Prince of Wales name keeps coming up. Can you discuss the opportunities of this…
Sidhart Sodhani
How did the Dye School coming into being? I have been running a natural dye manufacturing and retail business over the past four and a half years…
Nathalie Hartog-Gautier
You comment,’ My work is focused on the voyage between people and their environment ….’ Can you explain this in relationship to your art work? My…
Helen Earl
You currently are currently exhibiting work as part of The North Head Project curated by Katherine Roberts at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. Can you…
Peter Hayes Bath
Your studio is in a very ‘special’ place can you share your studio and showroom with us? I converted the old toll house on Cleveland Bridge into a…
Nick Hollo
You are not only interested in location but the vegetation and land surface, expand on this and your work North Head Triassic Formation?North Head…
Francesca Vitali
How did you first become involved with paper? I have always folded paper since I was a kid. My parents' store, among other things used to run a lotto…
Samantha Bryan
Your comment, ‘I find myself preoccupied with everyday life, but not my own – that of the fairy’ can you expand on this? Somehow I became a ‘fairy…
Mary Fox
You comment that your work is ‘original art work to inspire functional wares to enhance your eating experience’, enhance on this comment. To me,…
Claire Molloy
You combine two techniques in your pottery, horsehair and saggar firing. Can you take one piece and explain both the combinations and techniques? I…
Roger Bennett
Discuss the use of colour in your work. I colour my work with water-based wood dyes, and I finish with three applications of Danish oil which…
Shimara Carlow
Can you expand on your relationship to nature and in particular seed pods in your jewellery? While studying at Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, our…
Tina Puckett
You call your work ‘Woven Art’ can you expand on this choice of words? My mother gave me a gift of a class on weaving an Egg Basket in the fall of…
Ruth Levine
Your art is about visual transformation of materials, discuss. I’m not intentionally an eco-artist. I see discarded and new materials in a…
Velma Bolyard
You make paper from many different natural sources discuss two very different papers and discuss the comparisons and differences between the two.…
John K Brown
Can you give a short timeline as to how you became involved in sculpture using salvaged materials? I’ve always wanted to be an artist. As a child I…
Melissa Jay Craig
You make your own paper – what are the sources of your base materials? More and more, the fibres I use are ones I harvest from my small yard,…
Nick Chase
You bring both urban and natural landscapes to your glass work – discuss the technique you use? Take ‘Street View’ Where is the street? The Image…
Marlene Kawalez
Can you discuss the way you are currently working using a combination two materials, glass and clay within one piece? One of the most challenging…
Steve Axford
You are known for your photographs of fungi, how did this come about? By accident really. I had never been a photographer and I worked as, first a…
Susan Wechsler
You can thank your mother for your mosaic art - explain. My mom has always been a big influence on my creative life. She is an artist too at a time…
Mark Stoner
h4>‘In collaboration’, can be said quickly and flippantly, but in your work it becomes an integral part. Can you expand on this in relation to…
Lauren Collin
Is your work always created out of one layer of paper? Yes, it’s always one piece of watercolor paper and I carve into the thickness of the sheet.…
Evie Milo
You began your journey with a box of vintage buttons - tell us briefly about this creative journey? I say that and it is partly true but in…
Kristy Kun
Can you please comment on the statement, ‘Harnessed by the warmth and touch of her hands, wool emerges in a new dimension?’ I really can't stop my…
Joe Ganech
I first came across your work with Winston Churchill staring out at me. Expand on several of your works where you have used famous people? I like to…
Amber Cowan
“I rework objects currently relegated to the aesthetic dustbin of history. I reincarnate them into ornate abstractions.” Discuss this statement in…
Outi Martikainen
Your work has changed greatly since you completed Textile Art and Design in 1999. Can you point out several of the milestones? The whole way through…
Massimo Leotardi
Before I ask you questions about your art work can I ask about gourds? Where did they come from originally? Gourds are hard-shelled plants, belonging…
Louise Saxton
You do not see your work as textile art, rather Mixed Media Assemblage can you expand on this? I describe myself as an “assemblage artist”, as my…
Susannah Blaxill
Composition and cropping is very important to your work can you expand on this? The paintings and drawings have to work on the page. The choice of…
Aimee Lee
Discuss the progress you have taken to get to paper making. Music Book art Papermaking It's not inevitable…
Lori Reed
You grew up in the country, has this helped to heighten your vision of colour and space? Surrounded by views of pasture, woods and cornfields, I…
Ian Turnock
“Drawings and photographs are the starting point from which I develop organic, abstract and figurative forms.” Please expand on this? I take…
Jo Davies
You began your art education at Cardiff School of Art and Design in 1999 by 2002 you had specialized in ceramics what made you take up ceramic above…
Nancy Raasch
Can you discuss the technique of mulberry paper and why you are so impressed with it? Joomchi is a traditional Korean craft. You combine sheets of…
Emilie Patteson
Can you discuss how you use the life cycle in your current work? Growth / Decay Life / Death My work always starts with…
Alain Mailland
You are an active member of the French Association of Artistic Woodturning, discuss how this membership has assisted in your career and……
Valdis Harrysdotter
Please discuss your vegetable paper bowls? Inspiration design My inspiration is the material in itself. Handling the vegetable paper and thinking…
Zach Collins
Can you explain what you understand as Analog Collage? Analog Collage is term used to contrast “Digital Collage”. For me, this includes manually…
Benoît Averly
xplain how meeting and speaking to Gilbert Buffard changed everything for you? I met Gilbert Buffard in 2002. A friend of mine had taken a class…
Miles Allen
Has your art always been geometric and abstract? Apart from the occasional landscape or portrait my art has always been geometric and abstract. It…
Shannon Weber
Discuss how your work, had to be self-taught? When I first started making objects while living in a remote area along the Rogue River in Oregon, I…
Christine Atkins
You work in three mediums, textiles, sculpture and jewellery can you discuss the integration you have between them? Early in my career there was very…
Jonathan Whitfill
Media Expand on the inspiration of the work? Almost all of the work that I make comes from language based concepts of individual units combining to…
Deborah Smith
Can you discuss the importance of movement in your work? When I collect a piece driftwood that I’ll use for my work, I find myself imagining the…
Jennifer Collier
Do the materials you source speak to you? The papers themselves serve as both the inspiration and the media for my work, with the narrative of the…