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| Janet
Glatz paints contemporary realism with environmentally pointed
messages."...I have made these works in order to speak to the
sometimes harsh, sometimes beneficial relationship between sea and
humanity, while at the same time to convey the often confounding dichotomy
between beauty and tragedy, failure and triumph. As a life-long Maine
resident, I find it hard to conceive of a future without the sea as
we know it, the shorelines that protect us, or the thick forests that
sustain our wildlife...The subjects of her highly competent and
eloquent realistic paintings bear witness to her ecological convictions...
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Hester
Berry is an English artist in Sussex who feels that "artists
have an obligation to work responsibly and sustainably so that we
can exploit the discipline as a vehicle for raising awareness and
influencing a wider audience". Her fantastical landfill constructs
are a meditation on the convoluted nature of modern life, as well
as an illustration of the idea that pollution of every description
encroaches on our fragile and overburdened environment. Her painting
is therefore an attempt to connect the visual and culturally familiar
experience of the landscape with its visceral, reflexive equivalent,
so that the viewer can identify with the pleasures of the existing
but endangered 'great outdoors', and also become more aware of issues
which imperil our fragile and beautiful planet.
Her multilayered and colourful paintings are rich in suggestive
imagery implying a criticism of our waste producing society
and its destruction of the natural environment. She also
paints landscapes in a technique of thick impasto that expressive
a intense feeling for their beauty..http://www.hesterberry.co.uk/index.htm
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| Ann
Hart Marquis is a nature lover. "...Since childhood I
have been in awe of nature. Nature is overpoweringly grand, a force
to be revered. Nature evokes emotions, feelings of reverence and grace.
I am deeply concerned about the fragility of the environment....Trees
are a particular inspiration. They are primeval, fixed, grounded.
For these reasons it feels natural that we may learn wisdom from them.
Trees inspire me by their size, diversity, longevity and perseverance.
I am also inspired by color and the way colors interact with each
other. Color allows me to explore the drama and spirituality of nature.
It helps tell a story. " Her attractive site shows how her
colourful paintings express her love of trees as living things
- follow her blog as well...http://annhartmarquis.com/ |
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| Leah
Fanning Mebane is a former professional ballet and modern
dancer who has turned to abstract painting. She is also founder of
Natural
Earth Paints. "My recent work began with the desire to continue
to paint with oils, but without solvent, toxic paints or unsustainable
materials. This soon evolved into also finding my own earth pigments;
incorporating ashes from our wood stove; adding creek sand, marble
dust and granite dust into the paints; using local walnut oils and
exploring sustainable surfaces.... This then lead me into a deeper
connection with our natural world as I left the studio and made a
connection with these materials..." Her 'playful' colourful
and lively paintings are expressions of movement and her feelings
for nature, on a well presented site, and her paints are for sale
on another site.... http://www.fanningart.com/
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Honevo
is an thoughtful artist artist based in Spain whose paintings try
to express the cultural paradigm of creating art in a culture that
destroys its environment. "...Can such a culture be in fact a
culture, when it is so insensitive? Is this a culture or is it just
garbage?. . After years of campaigning for our ecosystem we have all
agreed to create a museum of natural memory...We made archives to
remember all that disappeared ... the trophy of poachers, of those
whose skeletons and roots remain below the earth...."
A stylish site made with Adobe Flash, with attractive and thought
provoking images and statement, and links to videos on Vimeo......http://honevo.com/ |
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Sandra Dowd is a Minneapolis
figurative painter and performance artist whose recent works merge
the human form into the shapes of peeling birch trees.She says "I
hope that by combining the trees with human attributes that the viewing
public would bond with and be more respectful of trees and nature.
Perhaps they would realize we are all one...The face and body have
always fascinated me....I see life’s primary essence as the struggle
to create balance between opposites. I find that same struggle when
creating art. In my work I try to walk the fine line between spontaneity
and control..." A well illustrated site of a very talented
and expressive artist.. http://www.sandradowd.com/ |
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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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| 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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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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| 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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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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GALLERIES
GreenLife
Gallery is a gallery for a collaboration of artists deeply
rooted in sustainability, founded by Pam and Chris Wagoner who selectively
promote the creators of consumable, functional and fine art that is
environmentally and socially responsible. Their featured creations
are produced using organic, reclaimed, recycled, found and otherwise
renewable resources or processes.
“The finest art of all is that which dances in balance with nature.”
“I want to be sure that my artistic expression is applied to something
that doesn’t compromise the environment or community where it originates..".
An attractive site showing high quality crafted things for sale"...http://www.greenlifegallery.com/index.html |
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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://www.eco-logicalart.org/
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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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