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| Bob
Campbell (Stig)
makes sculptures that are unique pieces of furniture out of scrap
metal parts. "At Stig all of my pieces are one of a kind, hand
crafted originals, the materials that I work with are carefully selected
from scrap yards and demolition sites this ensures that each piece
of functional art has its own unique character." An entertaining
and original site showing a rich collection of sculptural furniture
- chairs tables, stools and other peices..http://www.stig-art.co.uk/ |
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| Rob
Pettit, a 2007 graduate of the SMFA, creates cell phone art
to highlight the proliferation and waste of cell phones. " I
have collected over 5,000 mobile phones and made work from them in
various mediums: several large floor sculptures, light pieces, sound,
and drawings made up from over 40,000 tiny ink hand drawn cell phones"
.... A site short on written content but good on ideas, which have
attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic..http://www.robpettit.com/ |
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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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| Lynne
Hull - environmental artist. Her habitat sculptures work at
several levels, acting as ecoatonements to restore habitat damaged
by human impact while encouraging humans to understand wildlife needs
and shift attitudes toward our relationship with other species. "My
sculpture and installations provide shelter, food, water or space
for wildlife, as eco-atonement for their loss of habitat to human
encroachment. Research and consultation are essential to project success.
I prefer direct collaboration with wildlife specialists, environmental
interpreters, landscape architects, and local people for design integration.
The artworks function in the temporal gap between the time reclamation
of damaged sites begins and the time nature recovers..." An
unusual site professionally designed, with work showing a high degree
of awareness of the natural world and need to intervene... http://www.image-world.net/eco-art/index.html |
For the Birds (and Bats) Detail: Observation Point and Blind, with
Duck island in background.. .Cumbria, England 1993. |
| Frail
Loop - Gavin Darby recycles scrap metal to create his sculptures.
His inspiration is drawn from nature and the shapes of the found material,
to create flowers, birds and other animals. Frail Loop is his description
of the world in which we live. "If you take out more than you
put back you break the loop and it will all come crashing down. We
should all try to recycle and reuse as much as possible..I use metal
offcuts and scrap and give them a second chance of life...."
Frail Loop is now featured in the Selected British Craft Makers gallery
(http://www.craftmaker.co.uk/frailloop/)
A simply designed site with well illustrated imaginative art...
http://www.frailloop.co.uk/ |
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Jilly
Tinniswood is a Welsh-born artist who delights in creating
works inspired both by nature's forms and her Celtic roots. Always
sensitive to the environment, Jilly strives to ensure that all her
artwork has been constructed using recycled materials integrated with
the strength of a mixed paper pulp medium. For each piece she creates,
it is as much about the texture as it is the look and form, inviting
you to touch and enjoy them more intimately. Yet, as you will see
when you browse the galleries, some pull their inspiration from ancient
Celtic design and decoration as well as the enduring myths and folklore
of her Celtic people. She has written "...... it is the fusion
of the ancient and the contemporary that has shaped my work. You can
only be so deliberate when creating. The rest is up to something else
that we still cannot define. Sometimes the whole process has such
a life of its own that we might consider the artist to be the medium...."
A site full of delightful visual invention and seductive images...
.http://www.jillytinniswood.com |
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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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Pooktre
- Peter Cook and Becky Northey - In
1986 Peter had the idea of growing a chair. Nine years later Peter
& Becky became partners. Together they have mastered the art they
call Pooktre - the shaping of trees as they grow in predetermined
designs. Some are intended for harvest for high quality indoor furniture
and others will reman living art. Inspiration comes from the natural
beauty of the land were they live. Clear mountain streams and rugged
cliffs, a very wild piece of country. Compare their work with
arborsculpture below. Simple and
informative self-made site .... opposite -
table stand and mirror .... http://www.pooktre.com/
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Diana
Lynn Thompson is an installation artist who works with ephemeral
moments, accumulated objects, collected stories and insertion/intervention
strategies, which she documents in video and photographs. She took
her BFA at the University of Victoria. Her works have been exhibited,
performed and installed nationally and internationally. In the 1980’s
Diana worked as a park naturalist and botanical illustrator. This
background in - and deep love for biology influences her work, which
integrates scientific methodology with a poetic sense of wonder
. Opposite - Meander 2002. Semi-Permanent outdoor
installation of stones, placed in a meandering line in the valley
below the enormous Silvretta Dam. Viewed from the top of the dam,
the overall form is leaf- or boat-like in shape, providing a reminiscence
of the water that once flowed through the valley. ...http://www.dianathompson.net/main.html
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Paul
Goodrick is an environmetal artist and his site contains
many examples of the artwork and courses he has produced. It also
demonstrates how he has effectively linked his work into other subjects
and artforms. An example of his educational work with children is
shown opposite - DNA and nature. School/Community Art, Pfizer, ltd,
Sandwich, Kent 2002 - "I thought that if each child made a DNA self-portrait
sculpture using their own height, hand span and favorite colors,
it would give a startling exhibition of many sculptures that were
similar in design but individually different," ...www.thegreencube.co.uk
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Philippe
Demeillier - French
creator of paintings, sculptures, installations and kinetic constructions
using recycled vehicles and rejected artifacts of a consumer society.
His powerfully expressive work is figurative and portraits are a
recurring and obsessive theme. His work has been compared with Chaim
Soutine and Francis Bacon, and his views and feelings about society,
ecology and the individual are strongly expressed."...
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of the surfaces and objects on which he works, rescued from decay
or destruction, are expressively reconstructed as a denial of their
consumerist origins...". "Les supports se récupèrent de
la création des objets passes et servent a la recomposition matérielle
des décompositions consommatoires....". His site shows a
range of work over more than 20 years of work which deserves to
be much better known - recent exhibitions in the area where he works
in France are recorded ... http://demeillier.pals.fr/
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Arborsculpture
is a unique art form that has been called the ultimate branch of
topiary with the potential to save the environment. There are other
words and terms that are used to describe this art. Pleaching, grafting,
permaculture, tree trunk topiary, botanical art, botanical architecture,
biotecture, living art, visionary art, and really weird. Site created
by Richard Reames where you will be able to: see his photo gallery;see
reviews of and purchase his book; discover the slowly emerging history
of Arborsculpture and see the work of other artists around the world,
who are also practicing this art Compare with Pooktre
above....http://www.arborsmith.com/
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living bench
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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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| Caril
Chasens - Sculpture in Wood - He uses wood as a medium for
original one-of-a-kind sculpture. Wood, containing and reflecting
the complexity of nature, is, he feels, a medium deeply suited to
this time in history. Many of his carvings show animals within environment,
the environment abstracted in the unique nature of wood. Included
are links to pictures, links to writings, and links to other websites.
A simply designed site with high quality illustrations.. http://www.serve.com/carilc
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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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| 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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& Ecology: "A concern for Mother Nature has found its
way into much of Toronto’s public art. A local, two-person collective
called Fastwürms has transformed the city’s mostly underground Convention
Center into a simulacrum of the natural world". A site presenting
a constantly changing selection of sculptors many with a concern about
the environment... http://www.sculpture.org/ |
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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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| Loewestamm
Company manufactures stylish accessories handcrafted from
natural wood. Adhering to own philosophy, Loewestamm offers conceptual
collections composed of wooden necklaces, wooden bracelets, wooden
bangles, wooden earrings. Each product presented by the Loewestamm
Company is hand-made and unique since there are no two identical pieces
of wood. Flashy site with nice things... http://www.woodenjewellery.com/ |
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