Simply Creative

Bronze and Glass Horse Sculpture by Ben Young

Sydney-based artist Ben Young (previously here and here) created 'Stead', a handcrafted sculpture of a bronze-casted horse whose body is half-cloaked in blue-green glass.

Check his website: http://brokenliquid.com/

Wire Sculptures by Richard Stainthorp

English artist Richard Stainthorp constructed these life-sized sculptures made of wire.

Check his website: www.stainthorp-sculpture.com and http://rich-stainthorp.deviantart.com/

Street Art Made with Geometric Lines by Dzia

Belgian artist Dzia paints these stunning murals of animals in colorful patterns of lines on walls in abandoned urban areas in his hometown of Antwerp as well as in other cities across Europe.

“From a young age art has always been a great interest to me. My uncle was an artist and my whole family have always been very creative. This passion carried me through my younger years until I eventually went on to study a masters in fine art at the Royal Academy in Antwerp."

"After I graduated I really wanted place my artwork onto walls. I focused on creating a truly unique graphic style, using abstract and geometric lines to implement into animalistic forms. I’ve been painting on walls for around two and half years now."

"New ideas come very easily to me, so my work is very spontaneous – I paint quickly and in-situ to make sure the original idea stays true to its form.”

Check his website: http://www.dzia.be/ and instagram

Incense Series by Jihyun Park

Korean artist Jihyun Park uses lit incense sticks to burn thousands of tiny holes in rice paper and then mounts the final drawings onto varnished canvases for his 'Incense Series'.

"After reading the books Gulliver’s Travels, Utopia, and Erewhon and seeing the Japanese animated movie Castle in the Sky, I became inspired to develop a relationship between the concept of utopia and the materials that I use in my work. My recent work, Incense Series, focuses on this relationship while searching for the promised harmonic balance that utopia brings. Ironically, the word 'utopia' in Korean is 'Yi Sang Hwang' and 'Hwang' means 'incense'."

"The subjects addressed in my work range from the natural world to memories of the past, reflecting the constant physical and emotional changes in our environment. It is my hope that the 'moments' I captures of my subjects are ones when they are at their most ideal – true utopias. While drawing them with the incense, I am 'holding' a split moment of harmony in my hands."

Altered Books by Isobelle Ouzman

Illustrator Isobelle Ouzman altered these discarded books found in recycling bins and thrift stores, with beautiful three-dimensional drawings using glue sticks, an X-Acto knife and watercolor paints.

"Every book that I alter was found in a box by a dumpster in Seattle, a recycling bin, a thrift store, or was given to me by someone who no longer wants it. Rather than have these discarded books sit out in the rain or in some store to gather dust, I’m trying to make good use of them. I love books very much and would never carve into one that was valuable. I’m just trying to bring them back to life. Make them mean something once more."

"As to how I make these – a ton of glue, my handy dandy x-acto knife, a pen, watercolors, and a whole lotta love."

“I value books greatly. With technology the way it is, not many people are as willing to read physical books, so they sit untouched and are discarded.”

Check her website: isobelleouzman.com/ and Etsy store

Surrealist Sculptures by Ellen Jewett

Canadian artist Ellen Jewett (previously here) blends plants, animals, and man-made devices to create these fantastical animal.

"Plants and animals have always been the surface on which humans have etched the foundations of culture, sustenance, and identity. For myself, natural forms are a continual source of fascination and deep aesthetic pleasure."

"At first glance my work explores the more modern prosaic concept of nature: a source of serene nostalgia balanced with the more visceral experience of 'wildness' as remarkably alien and indifferent. Upon closer inspection of each 'creature' the viewer may discover a frieze on which themes as familiar as domestication and as abrasive as domination fall into sharp relief. These qualities are not only present in the final work but are fleshed out in the process of building."

"Each sculpture is constructed using an additive technique, layered from inside to out by an accumulation of innumerable tiny components. Many of these components are microcosmic representations of plants, animals and objects. Some are beautiful, some are grotesque and, some are fantastical. The singularity of each sculpture is the sum total of its small narrative structures."

"Over time I find my sculptures are evolving to be of greater emotional presence by using less physical substance: I subtract more and more to increase the negative space. The element of weight, which has always seemed so fundamentally tied to the medium of sculpture, is stripped away and the laws of gravity are no longer in full effect. In reading the stories contained in each piece we are forced to acknowledge their emotional gravity cloaked as it is in the light, the feminine, the fragile, and the unknowable."