The Artists of Ebay

Here's a roundup of my favorite ebay artists and some of their work.  There are literally thousands of original pieces listed on ebay every day, and most of the pieces I've selected are (well) under $200. I've provided a link to ebay below each image, and I've included the name of each artists ebay store. 
With more snow in the forecast for Tennessee this weekend, conditions will be perfect for shopping from home!

artist-donna

01 seeker711

ohiochic

maggie-k

alabama_artist

kolb studio



linda monfort



Do you have a favorite?

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artist anna-wili highfield

I'm really excited to share today's post for several reasons. One is because I finally discovered (via Jacqui Lewis's great blog) the talent behind an owl I spotted at Sibella Court's house recently. The second is because it's an example of what I want to do more on this blog - take photos of people in their creative spaces. And thirdly, it was so inspiring to actually meet Anna-Wili, who is not only incredibly gifted (she sews each sculpture - no glue, tape or staples are used) but also inspiring because she proves that if you pursue what you love the rest will fall into place. Oh, and her dad was a pupeteer - how brilliant is that!

What was your first job and what path have you taken since? Scenic painting for Opera Australia. I learnt so much about the alchemy of painting materials, how to achieve the effects of nature through the process of layers and reactions between paints. I think the time I spent at Opera Australia has really influenced my practice. I now make sculptures from paper that I stain and tear, then sew to create the figure of an animal. The opera influenced my love of materials and the desire to create an impression of the natural world.
What's the best lesson you've learnt along the way? To spend more time making then thinking. I don't like to try to plan a piece. My work evolves most effectively when I just start. I spent the whole of art school parralysed by too much consideration. I am now very prolific.
What's your proudest career achievement? The momentum that I am enjoying. Also that my animals have travelled to the homes of people in London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Melbourne!
What's the best decision you've made? To have a website created so that I enjoyed the encouragement of people seeking my work out and the fun of going it alone without worry of acceptance and critique (and heavy gallery commissions). I love to meet the people I am making the sculptures for, to know who they are and where my sculptures are going. I find this very fulfilling.
Who inspires you? The artists that inspire me are usually representational artists who allow the spaces between things. I love a piece of art that represents a little and then allows your mind to fill in some more. Artists like Luc Tuymans, Gerghardt Richter, Anselm Keifer, August Rodin, I just saw some William Kentridge animated drawings this afternoon, they were heavy and sad but so beautifully constructed and erased. Also my husband Simon Cavanough for his art and who he is. He is also the most helpful critic of my work. Also the music of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
What are you passionate about? Making beautiful things.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Since I was 16 the person I most wanted to meet was Nick Cave. But I don't think I ever really wanted to. I was standing two feet away at a music festival recently. I saw him and felt like my bones were out of my body. It wasn't fun.
What dream do you still want to fulfill? Simply to be able to keep on steadily making my art.
What are you reading? The Great Gatsby because I'm in New York.

images daily imprint

designer maria muniz-villa

The images above are from the work of design agency Villa + Villa. The company does the lot - architecture, interiors and graphics. And one of the partners - Maria - is also an accomplished artist. Her works have been exhibited in the Charles Hewitt and Francis Keevel galleries. Maria is from Argentina but now calls Australia home.

Which five words best describe you? Generous, perfectionist, hilarious, hard worker, dreamer.
What was your first career job and what path have you taken since? Fashion designer's right hand.
What's the best lesson you've learnt along the way? That you can learn things in life from every single person.
What's your proudest career achievement? When 2 of my paintings were selected from among 500 to get into a museum in Argentina, and I got third. Over the moon, that is how I felt!
What's been your best decision? To move Down Under to my adored Australia.
Who inspires you? My husband, for being such a humble human being...
What are you passionate about? Treasures, old and new beauty, all pre-loved objects.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Picasso.
What dream do you still want to fulfil? To be at my father's birth place Oviedo. Yes, the little town in Spain, where Vicky Cristina Barcelona was shot.
What are you reading? Do you matter? How great design will make people love your company by S. Emery and Robert Brummer.

images courtesy of villa & villa

artist faridah cameron

Recently I saw the image "Family story" (pictured, top) and I had to find out more. It is the work of Tasmanian artist Faridah Cameron who has a long history of theatre design at events such as the Woodford Festival (you must check these amazing creations out on her website). Now, she concentrates on painting in her studio in Hobart's Mt Wellington.


Which five words best describe you? Absorbent. analytical. idealistic. dedicated. honest. Of course, that could also read: impressionable, critical, hopelessly deluded and tactless.
What was your first job and what path have you taken since? I was a radiotherapy technician. I realised I was in the wrong career, quit, had a family and then studied Fine Art in my thirties. While I was at art school in Darwin, theatre director Neil Cameron came to town and called for volunteers to help on a project, creating huge papier mache sculptures in the water at Mindil Beach and setting fire to them. It opened up a whole new world of artistic possibilities for me. Neil and I started a theatre company together and did huge outdoor ritual theatre events all over the country; it was a way of getting art out of theatres and galleries and seeing art not as a commodity but as a creative activity. We also involved hundreds of people from the wider community, and tried to reconnect them with something more elemental by working outdoors in extraordinary places, from desert claypans to the Yarra River, often making use of water and fire. I did a Masters degree and went back to studio painting, which is what I had originally intended to do, just in the last few years.
What’s the best lesson you’ve learnt along the way? Trust your intuition, but be observant of the results. That way you actually train your intuition.
What’s your proudest career achievement? You know, I don't really make a separation between "career" and the rest of my life. To me it's all one thing - I just live it. I guess I'm proud to be able to say that I've achieved that synthesis.
What’s been your best decision? To live by the things I believe in, instead of taking the obvious and often more socially acceptable path.
Who inspires you? The Dalai Lama. For me he represents spirituality without religious dogma, politics without aggression.
What are you passionate about? Painting. I love its history, its fluidity, its endless possibilities. Music, especially the opera. I listen to it all the time when I'm working. My family. I love them to bits.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Well, I could say Leonardo or Ghandi, but actually I'd really like to meet my great(x4)-grandmother, who came to Australia around 1830. I think she could explain a whole lot.
What dream do you still want to fulfil? I would quite like for my paintings to be well known and seen as having some lasting value.
What are you reading? An anthology of selected works of Virginia Woolf, a friend's PhD thesis and an encyclopedia of Indian handcrafts. But if you'd asked me last week, it was Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith and a Rebus novel.

images courtesy of faridah cameron

artist & dinosaur design's stephen ormandy

You might have seen Stephen Ormandy's artworks on a recent cover of Vogue Living - his home with fellow Dinosaur Design's founder Louise Olsen was featured inside. Or you might have seen his recent exhibition at the Tim Olsen Gallery - I still have the flyer pinned to my board at work (he used the most beautiful yellow, grey and blue combinations). Alternatively, you might just know him as part of the triumvirate - Liane Rossler is the third partner - that established Dinosaur Designs.

Which five words best describe you? Lover, optimist, enthusiast, dedicated, inquisitive.
What was your first career job and what path have you taken since? I have never worked for anyone but myself and don't consider working at Dinosaur Designs or painting as a job, It feels more like living a creative life. I first dreamed about being a painter in kindergarten, which is all about play and creativity, how much fun is that, no wonder I was hooked early.
What’s the best advice you’ve been given? Travel.
What’s your proudest career achievement? A solo show at Tim Olsen Gallery.
What has been your best decision? Applying to study at COFA.
Who inspires you? Matisse, Picasso, William Scott, Victor Pasmore, Miro, Arp, Tapio Wirkkala, John Olsen, John Coburn, Dale Frank, Anish Kapoor, Urs Fischer, Wolfgang Laib.....
What are you passionate about? Family. Painting. Designing. Surfing. Food.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Matisse.
What dream do you still want to fulfil? I have so much to be thankful for already.
What are you reading? The $12 million stuffed shark by Don Thompson. Glimmer by Warren Berger.


images courtesy of stephen ormandy and tim olsen gallery

Corian® loves Missoni

Iconic design material meets world-class master in colour and style

January 2008 - What happens when you combine a world-class master in colour and style with a global star among design and architecture materials ? The result is one of the most inspiring events of the 2008 design extravaganza in Milan: “Corian® lovesMissoni”.

Corian® loves Missoni

Iconic design material meets world-class master in colour and style

January 2008 - What happens when you combine a world-class master in colour and style with a global star among design and architecture materials ? The result is one of the most inspiring events of the 2008 design extravaganza in Milan: “Corian® lovesMissoni”.

Human Clock by Romain Laurent

Human Clock by Romain Laurent

Chuck Brown by Tim OBrien.

Chuck Brown by Tim OBrien.

Human Clock by Romain Laurent

Human Clock by Romain Laurent

Chuck Brown by Tim OBrien.

Chuck Brown by Tim OBrien.

Oved Valadez - Arc

Arc is a representation of what can be done when two ends meet to create a valued experience. The clash and balance between tech and nature, man crafted objects and natural materials that bring us to modern craft. Arc is a reminder of not adding complexity to our everyday needs, such as knowing the time by going back to the basic things we value.

Oved Valadez - Arc

Arc is a representation of what can be done when two ends meet to create a valued experience. The clash and balance between tech and nature, man crafted objects and natural materials that bring us to modern craft. Arc is a reminder of not adding complexity to our everyday needs, such as knowing the time by going back to the basic things we value.

Tina Roeder White Billion Chairs

This is a very cool idea! Tina Roeder has taken the obligatory white outdoor chair and turned it into an original with nothing more than a Dremel and a drill bit. See Appel Design for more images.

Sol Sugar

"When people see my work I would like them to smile, to be filled with a rush of warmth that causes their cheeks to turn pink, to giggle…

I want them to feel alive with colour"

Dazzling acrylic paintings by Brandy Saturley of Sol Sugar Designs here in Victoria... I showcased some of her colourful, curvaceous pieces from her Toe collection awhile back.
Literally a neighbour of mine (James Bay... yah!!), Brandy's art is incredibly vibrant and full of exquisite detail. She is inspired by the ocean and the colour blue which resonates as a dance of rigorous patterns throughout her pieces. So lively and whimsical... I adore her work.