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]]>Okamura, who usually works with pen and acrylic paints, often combines her artworks into one bigger installation. Several smaller paper drawings are placed on a wall that is then adorned with similar motifs. This way, the artist “enshrines nature within imagined architecture.”
According to the artist, her works explore “the similarities between patterns found in nature and symbolic forms used in various religious traditions and metaphysical imaginings.” She also looks to examine “how the symbolic potential of geometry might be harnessed to evoke spiritual interpretations of the natural world.”
Okamura’s intriguing art has caught the attention of the art world, and she has been a recipient of awards like the Australia Council Career Development Grant and Ursula Hoff Institute Drawing Award. Her works have been exhibited in art galleries and museums in Australia and abroad while also being featured in renowned art magazines.
The artist also gladly shares her newest pieces on her social media. Continue scrolling to check out more of them.
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]]>Okita is a Japanese-born artist based in North Carolina, who uses everything from hand-painted fabric and embroidery thread to feathers and faux fur to bring her works to life. Her main goal is to capture the realism of nature and manipulate it into the world of imagination.
Okita’s fiber sculptures usually take the shape of moths and butterflies, between 3.5 and 4.5 inches tall. She tries to emulate real specimens, using multiple layers of fabric and embroidery to give their wings, body, legs, and antennae some accuracy and realism. She enjoys taking creative liberties from time to time, but her works are usually as lifelike as the fabrics allow them to be.
Okita became a true sensation thanks to her insect-inspired fiber art, but her creations now go far beyond that. She also enjoys experimenting with botanical fiber sculptures, which often require more skill and attention to detail than insect sculptures that put her on the map.
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]]>Painting was Mason’s big love throughout her childhood, but she left it all behind later in life. She studied history at the university and started working in local government management during her mid-20s, but found herself lacking a creative outlet.
𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡 (@annamasonart)When she decided to give painting another shot at 26, Mason realized it’s been seven years since the last time she picked up a brush. She always struggled to figure out what she should paint, but she found an endless source of inspiration when she discovered the world of botanical art.
“I came across some botanical artwork: detailed paintings of flowers and plants, and it spoke to the part of me that had always loved nature and recently started gardening. I’d found the answer to my ‘what to paint’ block. My painting hand started to itch!” she explains on her official website.
Mason has been painting ever since, and her Instagram page is now followed by over 130,000 people. Her art is mostly inspired by flora and fauna and she offers painting classes on her website for all the people yearning to explore their creative side.
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]]>Flora Forager is the alter ego of the Seattle-based botanical artist Bridget Beth Collins, who attracted almost 200,000 followers to her Instagram page so far. She specializes in carefully arranging petals and leaves to craft images and scenes that are giving them a brand-new life.
Before discovering her love for botanical art, Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Seattle Pacific University, but her love for nature took her on a different artistic path.
Collins now resides in an “urban cottage” in a Seattle neighborhood Ravenna with her husband and children. Most of the flowers and plants in her art come from a small garden in her home, her mother’s garden in the sea town of Edmonds, or from her immediate surroundings.
“I love to adventure into the wildflower woodlands, mossy waterfalls, and grey sand starry expanses of the Pacific Northwest. I forage almost all of my creations from foliage and flowers plucked from our sidewalks, meadows, and woods in our neighborhood,” explains Collins on her official website.
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]]>Koosch attracted over 22,000 Instagram followers since embarking on her creative journey, and it turns out it was all a happy accident. She discovered the art of paper quilling while looking for origami tutorials online, and that was the beginning of a magical journey.
Koosch initially dismissed the idea of giving it a try because it looked extremely time-consuming. She couldn’t imagine herself spending infinite hours making paper flowers, but she couldn’t let go of the idea and decided to give it a shot.
Koosch is a self-thought artist, and she’s committed to helping others discover the magic of paper quilling. In addition to posting her creations on Instagram and selling them on Etsy, she also shares useful tips about this technique on her blog and YouTube channel.
“Everything I know about this type of paper craft I learned from the internet. The quilling community is full of wonderful and incredibly talented people, and new ideas spread like fire… I love being a part of this,” Koosh told All Things Paper.
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]]>“Color and texture form each woman’s shape, and from the photographs of once-living individual things, portraits of ethereal beings begin to emerge,” the artist tells This is Colossal. Her latest series, titled Battle Cry, shows women in conflict.
Scroll down to see her works. You can find more of Joy’s works on her Instagram page.
I had big plans to post my first teaser of the work for Battle Cry yesterday, the first day of Spring. But life is real weird these days, and didn’t feel like engaging in my real life in anyway. ———————————————————————— @jrinehartgallery and I are committed to continuing our plans for Battle Cry to open May 31st as long as it’s safe to do so, and will get creative if need be. We both will be sharing updates and either way, I can’t wait to share with you what I’v been making. I’m so proud of this work. ———————————————————————— In the mean time, he’s a peak at the world’s cutest cellulite. // #mj_battlecry
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