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Calvin Nicholls

Award-winning Canadian paper sculptor, Calvin Nicholls, created these incredible wildlife and nature scenes. Inspired by family, friends and high school art teacher, he enrolled in the three year graphic design program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.  After graduation he spent his first year in an advertising agency and in 1981 opened his own freelance design studio in Toronto.  Much of his work is monochromatic combining his life-long interest in art and wildlife.  In an article on Daily Mail he writes this about his art:

“I developed my art to the point where I blended many of my passions-wildlife, the natural world, photography, design, model making, sculpture, light and shadow and have managed to indulge all of them.”

More of his work can be found on his website, Behance, Facebook and Instagram.

Images:  Courtesy of Calvin Nicholls.

Clara Szczurek

We love the simplicity of her work and her subdued color palette.  We don’t know too much about the artist except what she has written about herself:  

“My name is Clara alias Poivredelune, I am 28 years old and I am a graphic designer & illustrator specializing in logos, visual identity, print, website graphic design and illustration.”

More of her work can be found on Instagram, Behance and Dribble.

Images:  Courtesy of Clara Szczurek.

Wu Guanzhong (1919 – 2010)

Wu Guanzhong was born in the Jiangsu province of eastern China.  He studied initially at the National Academy of Art in Hangzhou under Lin Fengmian, a painter often called the ‘father of Chinese modernist’.  He moved to Paris in 1947 and returned to China in 1950.  At the start of the cultural revolution fearful of the Red Guards he destroyed many of his paintings and was banished to a remote countryside to perform manual labor.  In the 70’s he was allowed to return home and to paint again.  Known for his landscape paintings he is regarded as having been one of his country’s great modern artists.’

 Images:  Courtesy of various sources.

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