Category Archives: Crochet

Jan De Vliegher

Painter Jan De Vliegher lives and works in Bruges, Belgium. He uses light, form, color, shadow and a thick painting texture to produce strong emotional contemporary abstractions. The subject matter takes a backseat role to the lush colors, dramatic brushstrokes and overpowering scale of his work. On Gow Lansford Gallery he says this about content in painting:

‘Content in painting means more to me then a good political, social or moral story, or whatever kind of meaning/storytelling. It is something poetical and emotional, pure painterly, a free way of painting, a celebration of life. My approach to painting has a formal element as well. I look at paintings in terms of color, form and composition. I like to compose, to create order by means of different compositional styles’.

And on Hilde Van Canneyt blog he says this:

“Painting is ultimately a rational thought process. Truly profound and experience your feelings without systematics as happens in the expressionist world already rapidly decays into something animate. How often it does not happen that someone in a daze think you have made an incredible job and afterwards realize that it all means nothing? I see painting as more sport where you practice a hundred percent control over what you do and where you are very focused. You also need to agree to go out of control, but calculated.”

You can follow the artist here on his website.

Images: Courtesy of Jan De Vliegher.

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Laura Carmona

Would love to try our hands at creating extra large crochets like these handmade rugs created by Cordoba-based artisan, Laura Carmona. This business major has always enjoyed developing her creativity through handicrafts. Influenced by her grandmother’s crochet blankets the artist decided to acquire the skill. It was the discovery and love of cotton fabric yarn that launched her thriving enterprise.

You can follow the artist on her website, Facebook and Instagram. Some of her items and patterns can be purchased on her Etsy shop, Susi Miu.

Images: Courtesy of Laura Carmona.

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Nathan Ford

Love these minimized yet powerful paintings of UK-based artist Nathan Ford. The painter is known for his portraiture, still life and large urban scenes all created with a distinct style. The following quotes stand out on his interview with Passing Nightmare:

“Drawing and painting are inseparable in my world, drawing is key to everything I make.”

“Whatever I’m doing I’m fully engaged in – until it stops being engaging then I stop, because there is no reason to continue when the enthusiasm is gone.”

“I love what I do, I never chose it as a career, it just so happens it brings in enough money so as not to have to think career thoughts. I left school and started a yts apprenticeship in panel beating. I hated it, after a year my mum said why didn’t I do the art thing at college while I had the freedom and was living at home. So I did, I never planned to actually make a living out of it. I think if I had gone forward with the thought of money, my decisions my have been different.”

You can view more of his work on his website and on Beaux Arts.

Images: Courtesy of Nathan Ford.

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