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Mixed Media

Category: <span>Mixed Media</span>

Mixed media artists explore – and sometimes burst through – boundaries of traditional painting, drawing, photography, collage. Their sketchbooks  audition layers as well as demonstrate how different materials interact on a small scale. Our mixed media stories can inspire you to try new media in your next project.

Collage Art

Mixed Media Artists

Marie Bergstedt Endura

Spotlight: Marie Bergstedt, Mixed Media Artist

Marie Bergstedt is a fiber artist whose work defies traditional categories. Always telling a story with her pieces, she uses whatever materials and techniques best tell the story. And there...

Barbara De Pirro Sea Anenome Detail

Spotlight: Barbara De Pirro, Mixed Media Artist

Barbara De Pirro translates organic forms and patterns found in nature into sculptural works of art, often using reclaimed plastics. Because she is using the materials for a new purpose,...

Larry Calkins School

Spotlight: Larry Calkins, Mixed Media Artist

Finding inspiration in the world around him, Larry Calkins creates art that provokes laughter and emotion. In his hand-built studio/home, and sometimes outside it, he works with paint, fiber, metal,...

Mixed Media Collage Inspiration

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Textile piece

Spotlight: Cas Holmes, Textile Artist

To explore Cas Holmes' work, you have to engage with layers - layers of fabric, paper, paint, ephemera and stitch that bring the often overlooked to the front of mind....

Hardware Cloth Quilt

Spotlight: Libby Williamson, Fiber Artist

Growing up with artists as parents, Libby Williamson explored many ways of creating, and that is reflected in her fiber art today. With complex layers of fabric, paint, dye, print,...

Bird quilt made with TAP by Lesley Riley

Spotlight: Lesley Riley, Mixed Media Artist

With an artist inside waiting for release, Lesley Riley's imagination collects and combines words and images. Then she sets them free. From fiber to collage to painting to cyanotype to...

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Sky Trippers art quilt by Dinah Sargeant

Spotlight: Dinah Sargeant, Fiber Artist

Dinah Sargeant studied painting in college and discovered quilting when her children were young. She now combines both passions to create detailed painted art quilts and art dolls. Working on…
Me Time mixed media by Emma Thorp

Spotlight: Emma Thorp, Contemporary Australian Artist

Emma Thorp is a contemporary artist who works with coloured pencil, digital drawing, and animation. Her work often takes the form of self-narrative, as she records her daily experiences. How…
By a Gust of Wind by Petra Kooij

Spotlight: Petra Kooij, Visual Artist

Rewilding spaces one organic footprint at a time Petra Kooij’s work begins with the observation of plants and flowers in her small urban garden or the vase on her table.…
Golden Hour fiber art by Helena Scheffer

Spotlight: Helena Scheffer, Colourist

Helena Scheffer creates fiber art with textiles. Colour is what inspires her work. She starts with an idea, pulls out her fabrics and lets them speak to her. How would…
The Orange Jug by Fleur Rendell

Spotlight: Fleur Rendell, Visual Artist

Fleur Rendell has enjoyed art throughout her life, both as a maker and a viewer. She finds inspiration for her work in everyday objects and items that hold memories. How…
Please Save My Children fiber art by Viviana Lombrozo

Spotlight: Viviana Lombrozo, Visual Artist

Viviana Lombrozo enjoys working with a variety of materials and techniques to create her art. Her favorite part? The actual creative process of artmaking. How did you find yourself on…
I Do Not Say You Are Lying by Robin L. Bernstein

Spotlight: Robin L Bernstein, Artist

Robin Bernstein creates intricate art by cutting designs out of plywood, covering them with a beeswax mixture and pressing thousands of tiny cut pieces of colored string into the wax. Each…
Kinaalda collage art by Marie Danger Kare

Spotlight: Marie Danger Kare, Maker and Writer

Marie Danger Kare creates mixed-media collage using found papers, photographs, and textiles which she hand-embroiders using yarns she hand-spins on supported spindles. She also makes her own recycled paper and…
Dance Contest at the Salty Dawg by Julie Sevilla Drake

Spotlight: Julie Sevilla Drake, Artist, Poet, Storyteller

Julie Sevilla Drake has been an artist and a stitcher since a young age. She is mostly known as an art quilter, but also creates painted collages, acrylic paintings, and…

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