Conversations with an Artist: Rosemary Carmen Smith
Rosemary grew up on the coast of Northern California. As the daughter of artists, creativity was always present in her life. She has pursued a hyper focus on collage with...
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Conversations with an Artist: Linnan Ye of Neko Co Neko
A trained architect, Linnan Ye's Neko Co Neko ceramic collection has both an earthy aesthetic that can complement every decor and a hand feel that is sublime.
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Conversations with an Artist: Kyra Payne of Kiki Plz
Kyra Payne's Kiki Plz art collection is at once cheeky and irreverent. Bright colors, watercolor paintings, and a charm in the rudimentary approach the artist takes in her ceramic sculpting make this...
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Conversations with an Artist: Siri Hansdotter
A creative from a young age, Siri Hansdotter discovered a love of hand forming, first with clay and later with lost wax casting. Siri crafts fine jewelry with an aesthetic that...
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Conversations with an Artist: Dana Chieco
We love how the colors of the sea, from the various locals across the world that Dana has lived and traveled, inspire Dana Chieco's ceramic forms and glazes. While sublime individually, these...
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Conversations with an Artist: Michael McConnell
We've followed San Francisco artist Michael McConnell for many years and are thrilled to welcome him to Poet and/the Bench. We love how the animals in his paintings take on...
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Conversations with an Artist: RatxChicks Michelle Im
Humor drives a lot of the ideas Michelle Im of RatxChicks has for her ceramic forms and especially, their decoration. She often pairs motifs that are deliberately out of sync to capture a sense...
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Conversations with an Artist: Elina Peduzzi
Elina Peduzzi had a fascinating evolution to her artistic journey and jewelry career. Early influences flourished, even while she had a diplomatic career in Venezuela. Like many of us, the pull...
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Conversations with an Artist: Jamie Kelty
Jamie's work features people–characters she observes and imagines–whom she has drawn in her sketchbook and cut out as part of the textural collage work she employs. The layered universe she creates in...
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Conversations with an Artist: Betul Malik
Betül Malik launched her fine jewelry collection after working in revered jewelry houses in Europe. Her strong ethos, using recycled gold and ethically sourced and recycled diamonds, is a testimony of...
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Conversations with an Artist: MH Ceramics
Adi Mizrahi and Ron Hellmann of MH Ceramics are multi-hyphenate artists who bring a broad creative point of view to their pottery craft with nods to mid-century, Palm Springs aesthetics...
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Conversations with an Artist: Metal Atelier
Anna Butwell of Metal Atelier practices sand casting in her jewelry collection. She tells us it gives her the ability to experiment with one form in multiple ways, which can...
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Conversations with an Artist: Ian Hazard Bill
We love Ian Hazard Bill's philosophy of ceramics as a way to build connections to life around you and how he has mastered the art of wood-firing. His culinary functional...
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