These amazing 3D digital organic forms are the experimental work of Travess Smalley. With gems and mineral forms trending heavily at the moment, these abstract computer enhanced visual really caught our eye. Through a combination of computer hardware and software, he pushes aesthetic boundaries in ways not seen before. Check out more of his work on his portfolio site.
Patternbank love the chaotic rhythms of New Zealand based artist James Cousins. With not an ounce of Photoshop trickery, Cousins paints alluring abstract imagery that mixes nature and erratic pattern forms. These sublime impressions are scored with geometric patterns, grid statements or concentric circles, creating a variegated visual filter and further distorting the image beneath. Check out more of his work at Ryan Renshaw’s gallery site.
Patternbank love these embroidered pieces by textile artist and printmaker Mandy Pattullo. Mandy works from her studio in Northumberland and runs some fabulous textile and printmaking workshops. We love the Jubilee workshop day which Mandy is running with her daughter Alice, where you can make an embroidered and beaded tiara or crown picture! Talent must run in the family as Alice is an illustrator. Mandy’s love of vintage fabrics shows itself in more of her work where she loves to piece together fabrics and found objects with small precious pieces of embroidery. You can see more of her beautiful creations at mandypattullo.co.uk
We Make Carpets is an art collective consisting of Stijn van der Vleuten, Marcia Nolte, and Bob Waardenburg. They make temporary structures that resemble carpets from a distance. The Patterbank team’s favourite piece is the intricate pattern form made up of pastel coloured plastic cutlery. The artists have also made carpets out of medical tape, cotton balls, balloons, screws, cocktail sticks and pasta. The carpets are temporary, made on the spot with no thought out plans or sketches beforehand. See more of these wonderful pattern pieces at wemakecarpets.nl
Sticking with the Australian flavour, we also saw these large scale collage pieces the other day and thought we’d share. Rone is one of the most iconic graffiti artists of Australia, his work hides under many overpasses throughout the city of Melbourne. Over the years the now famed artist reached street acclaim for plastering large canvases depicting faces of “girls” throughout the urban centers of Australia, London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Tokyo, Barcelona and Hong Kong. We love the semi translucent collage technique that gives these new pieces real depth and visual intrigue. r-o-n-e.com
Vladimir Stankovic is an amazingly creative illustrator from Finland. Stankovic works with a variety of mediums – from watercolors, tempera, colored pencil and markers. Patternbank love the way he mixes colors, in his surreal and some what spooky illustrations. Take a look at the rest of his strange nature studies on Behance net
Flourescents mixed with pastels are a real trend this season and these certainly caught our eye as great colour reference. Elyse Graham, an artist and jewellery designer works from her studio in Los Angeles and has created these wonderful synthetic versions of natural crystals. Layers of colourful balloons are built producing these surprising organic shapes and creating wonderful marbled stripe effects. Graham is fascinated by the notion that seemingly ordinary objects have the possibility of harbouring something unexpected and beautiful. See more of her creations at elysegraham.com
Colour can be so powerful and we love the way Howard Hodgkin uses it in his paintings, creating a language all of their own. Despite their apparent spontaneity many of Hodgkin’s paintings take years to complete. He often paints over the frames of his pictures, emphasising the idea of the painting as an object. Hodgkin has recently created a range of abstract, textural and vibrantly coloured painted patterns on cotton and linen fabric for Designers Guild.
