“I Gave Myself the Challenge of Painting Without Paint.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Theresa Knopf is a recent graduate of the California State University at Northridge where she studied painting. Using a mixed medium including paint, textiles, thread, and cyanotype prints, Knopf creates pieces which reflect on women’s histories through restraint, concealing, and revealing. Jaeger:…
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WTP Artist: Julia Wright
“Pushing the limits is the only way to challenge complacency in design.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Julia Wright is a textile artist and designer currently living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Textiles at the Rhode Island School of Design. Jaeger: In “Structural Understanding,” (above) appearing in this month’s issue you explore the…
Process & Inspiration
“I Build up and Tear Down” By Lisa Boardwine See her work in WTP Vol. IV #7 My process involves layers upon layers of applying paint. Using various tools for adding texture and interest, I build up and tear down, dissolve through and scrape back, excavating and veiling to recreate a sense of the mysterious through many layers of media. The…
WTP Artist: Stina Persson
“Always striving for beauty but letting the process, and struggles, show.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Stina Persson studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence, and also has a degree in illustration from Pratt Institute in New York. Using ink, watercolor or collages with ceremonial Mexican cut papers, she creates a style…
Michelle Hold: Studio Visit
“No-Time, No-Space, No-Body” by Michelle Hold See her work in The Woven Tale Press Vol. IV #7 Video by Michelle Hold “My work is an exploration of the abstract, dance-like gestures, the vibrations of color and simple words. Light, movement, nature and new spirituality with scientific grounding are essential to my paintings and I am fascinated…
WTP Artist: Donald Martiny
“Brushstrokes are human, personal, and intimate.” Interview by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Donald Martiny currently lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was born in Schenectady, NY, in 1953 and studied at the School of the Visual Arts, The Art Students League in New York, New York University and the Pennsylvania Academy of…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg This month I thought I would use the title of my blog as an index for some very interesting sites. First off there’s Art so let’s take a look at some Stolen Bacons Spanish police have made seven arrests in relation to the theft of five Francis Bacon paintings from a private home…
Improving Style
Seven Steps for Developing Your Signature Artistic Style By Seth Apter [dropcap]W[/dropcap]e all know artists that have a signature style. When we see their work, we can immediately identify it as theirs and theirs alone. This is true for the great Masters, many well-known contemporary artists, and a host of people in our mixed media…
Printmaking
How I Make a Monotype by Barbara van Buskirk See her work in WTP Vol. IV #3 Who can say wherein lies the charm of a monotype— that unique print from a painted plate, which stands in the half shadow between painting and printmaking? … Its spontaneity and freshness, its directness and freedom place it apart…
Tatiana Rivero Sanz | In Her Own Words
Sculpture, Dance, Performance— A Photographer’s Personal Journey By Tatiana Rivero Sanz [dropcap]T[/dropcap]atiana Rivero Sanz is a photographer who creates her own indoor props for her photos and incorporates sculpture and performance. Prior to this process, she primarily photographed out in nature, until she had a bad fall on one of her excursions: I had just…
Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Satoshi Aki | Video
Composer & Photographer— A melody inspired by her photos… Tana Onceuponatimetana’s 150205—a collaboration between American photographer Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Japanese composer Satoshi Aki. [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y photos grow from an elaborate process, which involves a whole installation. In my own studio I first paint the walls, then I create one or two sculptures that represent a dilemma,…