Month: May 2010

Tom Shannon

Shannon’s paintings bustle with life — neon polymers suggest rampant vines, moist lips, and teeming coral reefs. But the multimedia artist generates these complex forms with a simple machine, a pendulum of his own design that swings over the canvas, releasing pigment from six radio-controlled paint guns. “The process is full of surprises,” the 62-year-old artist says. “The pendulum lets me step outside to observe nature as it produces layer after layer of detail.” Via

Louise Saxton

Intricate patterns taken from decorative arts of both eastern and western traditions are used in work which includes; recycled and embossed envelope papers inspired by quilting traditions; reconstructured furniture motifs cut into vintage wallpaper, inlaid with filagre patterns of various lacemaking traditions; and het most recent work which uses actual embroidery – hundreds of motifs extracted from their now redundant supports are reconstructed into new installations and suspended on swathes of sheer bridal netting. Via

Leigh Pennebaker

Born and raised in Star, Mississippi, Pennebaker began drawing fashion illustrations as a child. At the age of fourteen she started studying anatomy from life, taking figure drawing classes. It wasn’t until college that she discovered an affinity for sculpture. In the spring of 2001, Pennebaker’s first two wire dresses were included in an art exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Via