Art Hound

Nina Garner is an artist based in Charleston, SC. Her mixed-media works bring to life a combination of victorian, Art Deco and mid-century modern visual language, glorifing the great outdoors and man’s place in it (à la John Muir). Garner grew up around the United States and in Okinawa, Japan.

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Assemblage / Painted Plates is a multi-media series by the London-based artist and fashion illustrator extraordinaire, Tanya Ling. Materials include paper, paint, varnish and grout adhesive which are layered on what are presumably ready-made ceramic plates.

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Maria Aparicio of Santiago, Chile collaborates with photographers – adding unexpected visual elements with needle and thread. There are some very neat GIFs of the before and afters of her work here.

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Monica Canilao’s mixed media work via Pinterest. The scale of these works is really impressive – like allegorical paintings of the past.

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Erika Schmidt-Lawlor’s series Meanwhile, The Arctic Melts includes some of the most exquisite collages I’ve ever seen. There’s a remarkable balance of aesthetic force and subtly.

“The collage sensibility, in my work, reflects one of the premises of Indian mysticism that can be described as the “unselving” of objects, dissolving the individual in a world of separate things by a vision of endless change.”

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Mixed-media pieces by Nina Garner of Charleston, SC. Garner grew up in various parts of the US as well as Okinawa, Japan. Her Book series focuses a lot on materiality – both of the deconstructed books that give the series it’s name but also the bits of fabric, ribbon, dried flowers, etc. that offer glimpses of past lives. Above all Nina’s work is tender and poignant.

I have long been inspired by 19th century portrait photography, specifically the decorated photographs that served as mementos of loved ones, both living and dead. I try to create work that encompasses some of the same concepts as those mementos by turning a flat, one-dimensional photograph into a three-dimensional piece that will preserve my subjects forever, never to be forgotten.

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