Leisa Rich

Leisa Rich is a sculptor and artist who employs fiber, surface design, hand and machine stitching, human detritus and a variety of other unusual techniques and materials in her 2D and 3D constructions and Installations. She is an art educator with 35 years experience teaching all levels, and ages from 3 year old through college, in Fibers, Sewing, Painting/Drawing, Book Making, Printmaking, Clay, Resin/Molds, Encaustic and more. She holds Master of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and Bachelor of Education in Art degrees. Leisa used to teach  at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center  for many years.  Her previous experience includes international fashion, set design projects for television and theatre, a successful wearable art business, Director of Art and much more.

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See more of her work at:
http://monaleisa.posterous.com
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Carne Griffiths

Working primarily with calligraphy inks, graphite and liquids, such as tea, brandy and vodka Griffiths’ fascination with drawing focuses on the creation and manipulation of the drawn line. Images explore human, geometric and floral forms, in a combination of both literal and abstract translation and in response to images and situations encountered in daily life. Images are recorded in a dreamlike sense onto the page where physical boundaries are unimportant. His work creates a journey of escapism which focuses on scenes of awe and wonder, projecting a sense of abandonment and inviting the viewer to share and explore this inner realm.

Originally from Liverpool, Griffiths graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone in 1995. After completing a one-year KIAD fellowship and moving to London he served an apprenticeship at the longest-established gold wire embroidery firm in the world. Here he worked as a gold wire embroidery designer for twelve years, eventually becoming the creative director. Carne produced intricate designs for the military and the film, theatre, fashion and advertising industries. His designs were used for the uniforms in the films Valkyrie, The Last King of Scotland, and in particular his ‘Red Death Coat’ was used in The Phantom of the Opera. Carne’s elaborate floral designs for Asprey were included in their first ever catwalk collection and his work was featured on the embroidered cover of the 80th Royal Variety Performance programme in 2008.

Since establishing his own studio in 2010, Carne has exhibited in the UK at the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, the London Art Fair in both 2011 and 2012, and overseas at Urban in Ibiza in 2011 and Arts After Dark, New Orleans in 2010. Carne also collaborated with the British photographer Rankin for a feature in the 2nd edition of Hunger Magazine early in 2012.(ref:  Carne Griffiths )

All images © Carne Griffiths

Each Line One Breath: Morphogenetic Freehand Drawings By John Franzen

Netherlands-based artist John Franzen creates textured drawings reminiscent of wrinkled fabric or waves of water by drawing tediously placed rows of lines with black ink. The artist begins by drawing a single vertical line on the far side of a canvas but on subsequent lines allows for various imperfections to become amplified or suppressed as he continues, line after line. The process, which might look maddening, actually appears to be a sort of meditative effort for Franzen who works with almost robotic precision.

John Franzen’s ‘Each Line One Breath’ is a limited edition of fifty freehand drawings in which he focuses on an artistic and graphic interpretation of evolution through the use of simple drawn lines. The drawings are reminiscent of waves of water or light fabric, a breeze of wind has just gone through. Line after line he works his way across the page, triggering a feeling of conjunction with incomparable originality.

From September 5th until September 19th he will be showing his work Dixit Algorizmi at the Morgen Contemporary gallery in Berlin.

‘When I draw, I draw the void. Not the line. I focus on the nothingness around the line. It is a sort of meditation. My mind is clear. My focus is on the mere moment. There is only this one moment. Everything is still. Never thoughts are louder and feelings profounder than in this moment. My mind transcends into bare presence. Personality becomes formless and nameless. With each breath the emptiness is filled more and more. With every line I get closer to my origin…’

All images © John Franzen | Via: The Dancing Rest