U.K. artist Michelle Mckinney hand cuts copper, brass, or steel mesh and weave them into leaves, seeds, and butterflies, which is then colored and assembled.
"When I am working on new ideas I spend a lot of time just looking around me I am fascinated by nature and the constancy of it. I walk, take photographs, sketch and collect. My prize possession is my cabinet of curiosities in my studio in which I display all my finds."
"The changing seasons and fleeting beauty that surround me; the themes of life and death and this idea of trying to hold onto a moment are also important. My work is full of movement but with a quiet calm stillness – it is contained but has the feeling that at any moment it could float away – an ethereal quality."
"I spend many hours just working on a single form cutting forming and colouring the metal so it has a lifelike presence and sense of movement. I work from life so will collect a leaf for example or pick a flower and then try and recreate it in metal. If I cannot do it justice then I won’t use it. I am very hard on myself in that respect."
Check her website: www.michellemckinney.co.uk/
Source: thisiscolossal, whodhavethought
"When I am working on new ideas I spend a lot of time just looking around me I am fascinated by nature and the constancy of it. I walk, take photographs, sketch and collect. My prize possession is my cabinet of curiosities in my studio in which I display all my finds."
"The changing seasons and fleeting beauty that surround me; the themes of life and death and this idea of trying to hold onto a moment are also important. My work is full of movement but with a quiet calm stillness – it is contained but has the feeling that at any moment it could float away – an ethereal quality."
"I spend many hours just working on a single form cutting forming and colouring the metal so it has a lifelike presence and sense of movement. I work from life so will collect a leaf for example or pick a flower and then try and recreate it in metal. If I cannot do it justice then I won’t use it. I am very hard on myself in that respect."
Check her website: www.michellemckinney.co.uk/
Source: thisiscolossal, whodhavethought
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