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Paper has held my fascination as an art medium for most of my life. I still feel a child-like excitement when I find paper art that expresses beautiful gestures or capture a small detail of nature.
Grassland
Li-Chu Wu’s paper jewelry is a welcome addition to the growing list of paper art I have featured on DAM.
Mountain Landscape Brooch
Wu, who holds a Masters in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Products from Birmingham City University, creates movement by manipulating multiple layers of paper.
Floral
Landscape II
“The pieces function both as wearable pieces of body adornment and as sculptural objects off the body. The soft and subdued tones of colour that I choose give a quiet, calm and contemplative quality to the pieces.” Li-Chu Wu
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Moving from rural Pennsylvania to the coast of Florida was as beneficial for Hetty Metzger as changing her medium from acrylics and inks to paper.
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I’m back and ready for the Fall season with much more to share, including new things on the horizon for Daily Art Muse, so keep a close watch on this page. This morning’s artist shows us that when we are driven to make, our creativity transforms even the most simple material.
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Substituting pencils for crochet hooks allows Viviana Santamarina to leave traces of graphite as she crochets thin paper strips, adding one more interesting element to her collection of figurative sculptures.
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Danielle Bodine uses traditional basket techniques and found objects to create the lush, paper covered basket forms seen here. Bodine, a textile artist for 30 years, casts paper on the baskets then adds texture by stitching, collaging and burning with a wood burning tool.
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