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| Diana
Ritter creates artwork using 3 ½” floppy disks. All are one-of-a-kind
pieces made from floppy disks and other recycled material. With the
continuous advancement of computers and technology, floppy disks have
become obsolete and there is nothing that can be done with them except
load landfills and destroy our environment. Now, instead of adding
to the destruction of our environment these disks have become unique
art that can last a lifetime - wall hangings, photo frames, single
disk fun stuff.. “It’s a great way to have unique conversational pieces
of art while helping the environment at the same time”. http://www.disk-art.com/mainmenu.htm |
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| Marian
Osher , a printmaker and painter, born in Philadelphia, has
lived in Montgomery County, Maryland most of her life. Osher's artwork
has been shown in numerous exhibits in the U.S. as well as in the
Pushkin Museum in Moscow, the Museum of Modern Art in Argentina and
shows in Brazil, Belgium and India..."I feel a calling to express
my concern and use my art as an aesthetic vehicle for helping to raise
awareness of environmental red flags. I have chosen to use solvent
free water-soluble media to highlight a diverse range of environmental
issues including global warming, threatened biodiversity, forest destruction,
mountain top removal, and light and noise pollution" A well
designed and atractive site showing work that testifies to a real
concern for environmental issues ....http://www.marianosher.com/ |
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M.P.
Brown artworks - "Contemporary art for the conscience
contemporary" - M.P. Brown was raised during the gradual decline
of the American steel industry. The slow transformation from a blue
to white collar society left a lasting impression on him. Much like
the societal struggles inherent during change; M.P. Brown's artwork
invokes a feeling of contradiction or struggle. He uses an experimental
technique of smearing, blending, and manipulating paint with various
straight edged materials. This subtle struggle is an abstract depiction
of his general mood at the time of creation....This site shows
the work of a politically liberal and active supporter of Obama.
http://www.mpbrownartworks.com/welcome.html
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| Allison
ReauVeau creates paintings on scrap steel using non-toxic
paints in Phoenix, Arizona. Her art is modern|contemporary, soft and
contemplative. “I began experimenting on metal as an alternative to
canvas. I found the salvage yard to be a smorgasbord. The abundant
supply and need for recycling propelled me to continue working on
metal... I mix and layer paints/patinas and dry pigment to create
a look very similar to glaze on a piece of pottery... One can literally
gaze deep into each piece and experience a depth unlike work on canvas
or paper.” ...http://www.areauveaustudio.com/
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| Racheblue
- Originally from London, United Kingdom, she has lived in Auckland,
New Zealand since 2005. Her work reflects both of these very distinctive
places and is heavily influenced by both the immediate surroundings
of lush New Zealand landscapes, flora & beaches as well as recaptured
memories of vibrant & diverse cityscapes. Another theme is centred
around the broad subject of Ethics (particularly consumer ethics)
and Environmental Sustainability. Ethical fashion and recycling are
current topics under creative discussion and Racheblue combines her
artistic endeavours in these fields with research and writing on her
weblogs - Ecomonkey and bluAngelAlmanac... http://bluangeldesigns.com/ProfilePage.htm |
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| Petrolart
- is the art of Jimmy Pons using as his basic material “tar biscuits”
that he finds spread all over the beaches of Spain They are the remains
of the cleaning of the oil tankers dumped indiscriminately at sea
by ruthless captains and shipowners. He collects them and dissolves
them to make pigments. " I found out that so many different colours
came out of it, from black to cream..... I wanted to create something
beautiful and positive out of such a negative and pollutant material."
His art is a permanent reminder of our dependance on, and misuse
of, a fast disappearing resource, with which we are destroying the
environment of the planet. http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/chapapoweb/chapapoweb/iniciogb.htm |
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| Allyson
Wright, is using her talents to express her own heartfelt
philosophy on climate change. She is creating art that draws attention
to global warming and positive ways to offset carbon emissions, while
trying to encourage a more pro-active attitude in the face of global
change. She is committed to creating carbon negative artwork, and
giving back more than is taken from the planet, literally creating
green art. "My abstract art work is often done in impasto
oils, and these days I use the new ‘water based’ oil paints, which
don’t need turpentine thinners or white spirits, so they are gentle
on the environment." She offsets the carbon footprint of her work
by tree planting, the principle being to put back more than is taken
out. Her work reflects the wild beauty of our planet and at the same
time communicate the importance of safeguarding this natural beauty
for the future. http://www.allysonwright.co.uk/index.php
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Patrick
Cooper paintings of the Highlands of Scotland and Australia
range from traditional landscapes to indepth colour studys and close
ups of bark patterns. ".. Having spent a lot of time outside
in all weathers, earning a living or hill walking, I have always
been fascinated with the colours of the native woodland, mountain
and moorland. I am struck by harmonies of colour such as the reddish
upper branches of scots pines contrasting with their pine green
foliage or the maroon heather and yellow autumnal birch leaves.
To gain inspiration and ideas for paintings I will sometimes make
2 to 4 day trips to remote places staying in bothys or rough camping.
As well as sketch books I take small rolled canvases for colour
studies and oil sketches....".
http://www.highlandoilpaintings.co.uk/
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Guardian of Loch Dubh -
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| David
Bruce Thompson - artist and committed environmentalist, he
has painted extensively in Vancouver where he was born. This love
of nature has inspired a large body of wild life art. Recently, David¹s
work has evolved into new surreal images he calls Precious Planet
Art. The Gaia Theory motivated this unique work. These vibrant paintings
reflect David¹s passion for the beauty and fragility of the world
in its entirety. Large and bold in colour and content, each painting
depicts the earth in connection with something precious and natural.
An attractive website and art with an ecological message.... .http://www.preciousplanetart.com |
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NivesCicin-Sain
- is a Croatian artist making unique sculptures out of recycled waste
materials using the papier-mache technique. She also designs masks,
props and head-dresses for theatre performances. In addition Nives
illustrates children's books and designs picture postcards. She was
born in Split in 1961 and since 1989 has been working as an independent
artist, participating in 14 independent and 42 group exhibitions,
both in Croatia and abroad. A stylish and attractive well illustrated
website... http://www.nivescicinsain.com/ |
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| Greg
Patch - Green Art Studio - fine art painting with environmentally
sound materials. "..The wave in the landscape, where movement
is behind our eyes and before our eyes in lines, shapes, forms, and
colors, of our memories and the landscape's memories sculpted by the
nature of the wave in time..... The beeswax/natural pigment is food
container safe and colorfast." ......http://greenartstudio.com/
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| Jordi
Gispert Pi - a Catalan artist in his own words :"...The
message of the art piece is to provoke reflection and second thoughts
about the current abuse of nature and the way it is manipulated.The
way trees have existed before humanity and the way trees exist today
after humanity. The assembly of the art piece allows for easy hanging
against any type of walls, and also allows for suspension from the
ceiling. The viewing pleasure of the art piece is maximized when the
light reflects in 3 simultaneous modes..." An amazing animated
site with images that provoke reflection and a wish to know more about
the artist... ...http://www.nuskito.com/home.htm |
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| Rona
Green is a visual artist and printmaker based in Melbourne,
Australia. A fancier of characters and the absurd, her work examines
the darker side of the psyche. "Drawn with deliberate clumsiness
her boogie-men and flawed misfits possess a certain touching vulnerability
and sexless, adolescent awkwardness... Green’s flawed outcasts and
weirdos are condemned to a solitary existence in friendless, empty
landscapes and interiors...The most tender images are those depicting
an attempt at contact that never, however, manages to get beyond a
tentative shadow cast by an outstretched arm..." She works in
a variety of media - etchings and aquatint, woodcut, monotypes, linocuts
and digital prints... http://www.ronagreen.com/
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| Susie
Frazier - An American ecology artist who works with the self-organizing
principles found in nature to create abstract and representational
collages out of recycled plant materials like leaves and grasses.
Using only the natural pigments and no paint, Frazier develops inspiration
for each piece by exploring the north coast landscape throughout Ohio
and Pennsylvania....
http://www.susiefrazierart.com |
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Jenna
Weston Studio - Jenna's work includes fine handmade paper
mixed media sculptures which integrate numerous components from
nature. "I seek a balance in my collaboration with natural elements;
I want to give voice to their origins as well as to my own human
sensibilities and perceptions. This work invites the viewer to join
in my pleasure of the natural world's mystery and grace." A site
which is a pleasure to visit and browse in.. http://www.jennaweston.com
"Green
Season"
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| Steve
Walker - artist
"Ever since I looked out across the east London skyline and saw
the oppressive march of high rise living I have been anxious about
our effect on our environment. ..For the last 30 years I have kept
a visual diary much of which expresses my ambivalence of wanting 'stuff'
and its impact on our world. I now have a chalk downland wildlife
site in Kent, which I manage under the Stewardship scheme. There are
many orchids here including the nationally scarce Man orchid, also
there are adders, grass snakes, slow worms, many insects and butterflies.
Some of the profit from this website is going towards the upkeep and
improvement of the nature site.... ". Colourful site trying
to sell his "Giclée" prints (which means ink jet
prints, so are classed as reproductions) but in a good cause.....http://www.boundary2.plus.com/ |
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| Sven
Åke Svenson lives in the southeast part of Sweden on Österlen
where he has his studio and gallery. He works in his studio and in
the open air inspired by Scandinavian romantic landscape traditions,
painting with toning and glazing that gives a transparent effect.
His subjects are taken from the coast between Åhus and Kåseberga.
He also makes working trips to Bohuslän in Sweden, to Italy and Austria
... http://www.svenake.com/english/eindex.html |
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Walter
Spies (1895-1942) - Russian
born, German artist who settled in the colonial Dutch East Indies
from 1923 until his untimely death in 1942. He spent the early years
in Java, but from 1927 onwards he lived in and around the village
of Ubud in Bali. He was active in many areas of artistic and scientific
endeavour and Spies, along with the Dutch artist Rudolf Bonnet,
has been attributed with influencing the work of local Balinese
artists, causing them to work in more modern genres and making their
work more palatable for the fairly narrow tastes of Western tourists
of the time and since. The site created by Geff Green, who is
researching the work of Spies for his PhD at Sheffield Hallam University,
has a very good selection of images of Spies work...http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~scsgcg/spies/
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| Bel
Art Web Project is exclusively dedicated to art and pursuits
three main goals : To develop a community of artists and galleries
around the world, supporting their efforts with free resources to
promote their art sites, to provide a guaranteed quality tour and
an easy access to the best art related sites in the world of art,
and to promote the oil and acrylic paintings on canvas carried through
by Manuel Penha da Graca. A
simply designed site that offers links to many good international
galleries and collections and services for artists wanting to promote
their works. The artist author's own works are modestly buried in
the middle of the site.....http://pwp.netcabo.pt/penha.graca/about.htm |
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| Canyon
Spirit Gallery - Bonnie Antich moved to Colorado in
the early 1980's. In 1994 she took pottery lessons, finally fulfilling
her passion for art. In 2002 she and her husband, artist/furniture
maker Scott LeCocq, purchased a historic building in Old Town
Fort Collins and opened their Gallery powered by renewable energy...http://www.canyonspiritgallery.com |
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| Eco-LogicalART
is a dynamic new non-profit sister company to Peter Schulberg’s personal
recovered element studio, the DejaDesign Gallery. Both entities share
his conviction that beautiful objects surround us and only need to
be re-envisioned. With Eco-LogicalART Schulberg takes his theory of
creative recovery to ground liberating new heights. The gallery’s
fine art line features original art painted on recycled billboard
vinyl. Tossed into landfills by the ton weekly, this heavy, ink impregnated
material is an environmental nightmare. But ECO-LA takes the indestructible
nature of the advertising vinyl and turns it into an asset. Dynamic
and aesthetically pleasing as they are, the works offer something
more-- the feel good satisfaction of knowing that a landfill, somewhere,
is a little less full because of the art hanging on your wall. An
old Shaker saying is one of Schulberg’s touchstones: “We do not inherit
the earth from our parents; we are borrowing it from our children.”
Publically visible large scale art projects in Los Angeles doing
its little bit for recycling... http://eco-logicalart.org/index.php
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| Agora
Gallery
Is located in Soho, New York City, in the hub of gallery buildings
and museums including the Alternative Museum, the New Museum and the
Soho branch of the Guggenheim Museum. The Gallery is known for showing
a variety of original artwork and provides art-consulting services
to private and corporate collectors....http://www.agora-gallery.com/default.aspx |
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Art-Mine.com
- provides contemporary art for sale to collectors, consultants,
architects and interior designers, providing an opportunity to view
and purchase fine art for their art projects. Mediums include: paintings,
sculpture, photography, drawings, mixed media, digital art, ceramics,
fiber, works on paper, oil, watercolor, art prints, as well as other
fine art mediums in a price range that can accommodate most budget
requirements. Only some of the artists represented use ecological
techniques or draw on themes from the natural world, but all the
art is well presented and visually stimulating....
http://www.art-mine.com/
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| World
Wide Arts Resources - A searchable index of artists, art organisations,
and arts related sites in all categories. many artists featured are
concernwith ecology - for example : Elena Osterwalder's exhibition
entitled "From Earth". Osterwalder's installation is a modern take
on traditional Hispanic papermaking techniques. "My objective is to
fuse old methods used by artisans with contemporary thought processes."
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greenmuseum.org
- a new online museum of environmental art, advances creative efforts
to improve our relationship with the natural world. Our goal is
to inform, inspire and connect people through environmental art
and encourage the creation of new work that serves our communities
and ecosystems. The site has three main sections: Artist Section
presents images and documentation of artwork, writings and online
exhibitions. Community provides a full listing of Events, Opportunities,
and Links.... www.greenmuseum.org
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example of an artist's work on this site are the impressive stone
and earth sculptures of New Zealand artist, Chris
Booth. They are feats of balancing, engineering and a widely
conceived sense of place. Stacked stone forms refer to their origins
in volcanos or river banks and are often gathered in consultation
with representatives of local indigenous people... http://greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-30__nosplit-z.html
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| Peter
Ormsby - Steam Train Artist - captures "an era when time
moved at a more leisurely pace. When people cared about their fellow
travellers. An era when people recycled because they had to!"
A site for steam enthusiasts, offering meticulously drawn b+w pictures
and technical descriptions of mostly Australian locomotives. Also
signed reproduction prints can be ordered. ...http://www.steamtrainartist.com
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