Mixed Media and Mosaics
Modern society has presented us with a huge variety of materials that have been creatively adapted by new artists. Materials that were intended for utilitarian uses have been re-purposed and mixed. Providing fresh opportunities for artistic expression to explore texture, color, pattern and form.
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![]() Bill Wilson wm.cswilson@gmail.com
I enjoy working with gourds because they provide the opportunity to use such a variety of techniques. I wood burn, carve, and cut them. To color them I use ink dyes, oil pastels, acrylic paints and Inktense pencils. I often embellish them with pine needle coiling. My more common motifs include flowers, fish, butterflies, leaves, holly and poinsettias with autumn leaves being my “trademark”. I also love going to a gourd farm and digging in the musty dusty bins for just the right gourd. And then working with the dirty moldy piece of vegetation and converting it into something beautiful enough to put in someone’s home. |
Martha Jones greenmosaics.com mj@greenmosaics.com![]() Reuse and Recycle Artist
Professionally trained interior & architectural designer, Martha Jones, artist and owner of Green Mosaics, combines her passion for design, salvaging and reuse into creating recycled art for home & garden. Intrigued by her mother’s Better Homes and Gardens magazines as a child, along with looking forward to local trash night, her unique art and approach blends her environmentally friendly attitude while also slowing down the amount of material put into landfills. Birdbaths are created from discarded satellite dishes, terracotta chimney inserts are mosaiced into garden columns, table tops are made from leftover vinyl flooring, and junk mail, wallpaper and old calendars are used for collage picture frames and wall art. |
Lin Schiffner www.linschiffner.com linschiffner@gmail.com
Kris Johnson designsinfiber.com
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Lori Humphrey nestingathome.etsy.com lorihumphrey90@gmail.com
Liz Collins lizcollinsart.com lizstudio123@gmail.com![]() Working with oil pastels for the past 20 years, the move into mixed media this past year has sparked an exciting, new creative path for me.
The work is a spirited exploration of planes, transparency and the use of maps and other found writings as both texture and metaphor. Using the line of selected planes breaks the solidity of the surface and gives the piece a life of its own. The serendipity of color placement and freedom to use whatever color wherever I desire is like being let free from a box into the wild. Oil pastels and acrylics as my” background” media I mostly work on panel that has been gessoed, then finally, coated with an archival varnish. |
Michael Larson Larson.michael3@gmail.com![]() Using primarily recycled metal, wood and glass, I create unique artistic expressions. I enjoy the challenge of taking discarded materials and giving them a new life as quality artwork.
My work ranges from the whimsical to the serious, from simple wind chimes to complex weldments. |
Sharon Griffiths sharongriffiths@sbcglobal.net

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