Artist Spotlight – Kathy Wolfe, Photography
Artist Spotlight Interview
Kathy Wolfe
Medium
Photography
During Moss Rock Festival, you’ll find Lori at Booth 303.
Check out Kathy’s artist page on our website
What influenced your career path as an visual artist?
My Dad had a darkroom when I was very small. I spent many hours from the age of about 8 on in the dark watching photographs magically appear in a tray. Guess I was hooked from there.
What kind of work will you be exhibiting for sale at Moss Rock Festival?
I will be exhibiting mixed media photographs that are mounted on either metal or transfered into wood.
Tell us a little bit about your creative process.
I photograph my subject and then collage in textures and paints to create a background. I print the image onto transfer film first. After drying, I mix gelatin, water, gel medium and marble powder, cook them in a microwave and strain over wood. When it has cooled down to a specific temperature the film is rolled across the surface and the ink is transfered into the wood.
How is your work inspired by nature?
My work is inspired by the perfections and imperfections found in nature. I like the complexity of a single object. I love that I can walk my dogs and find subject matter in a pile of leaves.
How can people find out more about you?
www.kathywolfe.com or www. facebook/kathywolfeimages
Image courtesy of Artist.
Suzan & Chuck Buckner
Suzan & Chuck Buckner
2D Mixed Media
Site # 445
Woodville, AL
www.suzanbuckner.com
Artist Spotlight: Lori Nichols, Fiber
Welcome to Moss Rock Festival’s Artist Spotlight blog post series. Stay tuned for sneak peeks into some of the great creative talent that will be exhibiting at the eco-creative festival on Novemeber 5 & 6, 2011 at The Preserve in Hoover. We hope to see you all there for Nature, Eco-Ideas, Art + Design. It’s going to be a beautiful weekend. We’ve even arranged for some colorful fall foliage.
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Artist Spotlight Interview
Lori Nichols
Medium
Fiber
During Moss Rock Festival, you’ll find Lori at Booth 218.
Check out Lori’s artist page on our website
http://mossrockfestival.com/2011/09/09/lori-nichols/
What influenced your career path as an visual artist?
From as early as I can remember I was surrounded by incredible materials. My mother is an artist and also taught art so I was constantly playing with scratch board, watercolors, linoleum blocks for printmaking, clay and other great materials just lying around the house.
What kind of work will you be exhibiting for sale at Moss Rock Festival?
I will be exhibiting wool toys, ornaments and soft-sculpture fiber art as well as handcrafted bracelet cuffs and scarfs from the scraps off my studio floor!
Tell us a little bit about your creative process.
I am an illustrator by trade and have just gotten an offer for my first children’s book to be published. My toys and softies are mostly 3D creations from my illustrations. I’ll come up with a drawing for a book and then tweak it and create a pattern for it. Once I’ve created a pattern I cut it out of cereal boxes. I like to find wool coating and materials from the thrift store and yard sales. I’ll felt the wool in hot water, cut out the pattern, and then hand and machine sew them. I am also extremely inspired by nature and you’ll find acorns and tree bark on many of my critters.
How is your work inspired by nature?
I like to look at objects in nature and playfully see them as something else. Acorns become eyes, tree bark will become feathers, etc. I like to use upcycled wool. I also grew up with a mother that had a love affair with trees. She was constantly painting trees and nature. I was usually beside her, always barefoot and outside. The outside world has always been where I have felt most comfortable.
How can people find out more about you?
http://www.etsy.com/people/
Image courtesy of Artist.
Artist Spotlight: Lynn Neel, Glass
Artist Spotlight Interview
Lynn Neel - Danse Du Soleil
During Moss Rock Festival, you’ll find Lynn at Booth 302
Check out Lynn’s artist page on our website
http://mossrockfestival.com/2011/09/09/lynn-neel/
What influenced your career path as an visual artist?
As a child being exposed to the arts, going to museums, plays, ballets and the symphony. As a child my love and confidence grew of being creative and I learned from others at a young age that I was good at making things.
What kind of work will you be exhibiting for sale at Moss Rock Festival?
Fine crystal glass hanging artworks. I fabricate the hangers in my studio and sought out the most unusual crystals in Eastern Europe in my travels.
Tell us a little bit about your creative process.
Creatively I find myself always seeking something uplifting. And when the sun rays strike the cut shards of these pieces, it allows the light to refract creating and surrounding you with gorgeous euphoric rainbow prisms dancing in the room.
The sun coming through the glass is when the magic happens with these works. I have noticed when you sit quietly with this happening, it brings a peaceful and beautiful relaxation to your heart and mind and body.
How can people find out more about you?
www.lynnneel.com
Image courtesy of Artist.
Artist Spotlight: Jinx Bentley, Sculpture
Artist Spotlight Interview
Jinx Bentley
During Moss Rock Festival, you can find Jinx at Booth 220
Check out Lynn’s artist page on our website
http://mossrockfestival.com/2011/09/09/jinx-bentley-3/
What influenced your career path as a visual artist?
My mother is an artist. I grew up watching her and dreaming of someday being able to express myself in beautiful way like she could. Art is my passion in life.
What kind of work will you be exhibiting for sale at Moss Rock Festival?
Dog and cat sculptures made out of recyclable items.
Tell us a little bit about your creative process.
I have trained a great deal on my own by studying new art techniques, styles and mediums, creating my own personal art pieces and doing various works for commissions.
How is your work inspired by nature?
I try to use as many recyclable items as I can. I would like to know that I am getting rid of a lot of garbage cleaned up out of our parks.
How can people find out more about you?
jinxbe@hotmail.com www.trashdogsculpture.com
Image courtesy of Artist.
Artist Spotlight: Nancy Abney, Fiber
Artist Spotlight
Nancy Abney
During Moss Rock Festival, you can find Nancy at Booth 231
Check out Lynn’s artist page on our website
http://mossrockfestival.com/2011/09/09/nancy-abney-4/
What influenced your career path as a visual artist?
I have to say that my primary influence has been Junking! I work with “found” materials, salvaged textiles and thrifted garments that I deconstruct & re-imagine into fun fashion accessories.
Salvaging has been a kind of lifetime adventure for me–to find the treasure in things that others cast off, overlook, ignore. I rescued my 1960s green metal sewing table when a local office remodeled. My 1930s Formica kitchen table was on someone’s trash heap. My favorite vintage cocktail dress I found on the side of the road. So, my artistic expression is a natural extension of my basic life aesthetic of rescuing useable materials.
What kind of work will you be exhibiting for sale at Moss Rock Festival?
One of a kind pieces of wearable art: kitchen and garden aprons sewn from salvaged and vintage textiles; vintage buttons and beads turned into funky fashion rings and earrings, and –my favorite new creation–amulet cuffs: bracelets fashioned from salvaged textiles and vintage buttons, with messages inside to inspire and empower!
Tell us a little bit about your creative process.
By reclaiming materials and recycling them, sewing with care & creativity, I preserve the “vintage” aesthetic of hand crafting beautiful goods of lasting quality. My process evolves from synchronicity, thrift, and playfulness. I work with whatever I find, often acquiring raw materials with little idea of what they will become. The textiles literally speak for themselves (and to each other), and I approach the process in a very contemplative fashion, the primary element of which is observation. I literally try to get out of the way so the creative expression can flow through me.
How is your work inspired by nature?
My first upcycled designs were aprons for gardeners built from scraps of vintage botanical prints, so their very function was inspired by nature. Nature also inspires my use of textures, patterns & colors. But the deeper connection with nature is the goal of saving useable materials from the landfill and promoting sustainability by modeling for others the craft of repurposing.
How can people find out more about you?
My New Vintage garden aprons, vintage button jewelry, and upcycled accessories can be found exclusively at Naked Art Gallery in Forest Park. You can read more about my story and see photos of past creations at www.NewVintageShop.com
My latest designs are in public albums on FaceBook, so go “like” ‘em!
Photos courtesy of Obie Travels Facebook Page
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- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.