Posts filed under “Inspiration”
A few tables
Attempting to keep all the balls in the air means that sometimes you have to throw one of those balls so high it stays up for a very long before you have to catch it. This is the latest of our sporadic entries – our latest ball to catch…….. We recently completed a lovely project [...]
SOFA New York
I’m off to SOFA New York tomorrow. I’ve been checking out galleries and artists showing this year. I can’t wait to see Scandinavian ceramicist Merete Rasmussen’s work at J.Lohmann Gallery. I’ve seen a lot online but seeing those sensual twisting forms in reality will be special. A real treat will be to just ‘be’ in the [...]
With Characteristic Irony
Richard Slee. Yellow Trowel, 2007, Length 32 cm. Ceramic, enameled found metal, fabric. I’ve been a fan of Richard Slee since the 1980’s. I’m drawn to his craftsmanship and the compositions he creates combining forms, materials and colours. But above all I get his humour. He makes me smile. We’re lucky as we live with [...]
Our visual nourishment!
‘Imagine you are driving (8)’, painted by Julian Opie, 1993. ‘Olive Babe’, The Duo Series, designed by Gunnel Sahlin, manufactured by Kosta Boda, 1999. ‘CH 4’, painted by László Moholy-Nagy, 1938. Tulip pedestal tables and chairs, designed by Eero Saarinen, for Knoll International, 1956. Spring/summer collection, designed by Narciso Rodriguez, 2005. Like most designers we [...]
June Schwarcz: Inspiration!
Enamel vessel, from “June Schwarcz, Forty Years, Forty Pieces”, Catalog, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, 1998 June Schwarcz is playing a trick with us – she makes metal look like paper or fabric. I adore the transformation. And I love the material quality. It’s somehow humble. Not glossy, it’s matte, rough, misshapen … [...]
Tomomi Matsunaga: Inspiration!
Natural bamboo necklace, 2001. From Contemporary Japanese Jewellery. The artist has carved delicately poised and sensual forms, working in harmony with the bamboo. These photographs in themselves are stunning works of art – for their forms, composition, and lighting and for the way the photographer has pulled out the qualities of bamboo. Neither necklace is [...]