It's always great to throw the spotlight onto an artist whose
discipline is entirely new to us and to our best knowledge we've never
featured embroidery in Now Then.
If you've lived or spent any extended period of time in the city of
Sheffield, Florence Blanchard is an artist that you'll be aware of,
whether you know her name yet or not.
"I suddenly understood how that piece of paper could connect with other pieces of paper and become a flower. It was like an enlightenment. It's like opening a little door in your brain and allowing new ideas to come."
"Among my illustrations, the ones I prefer are mostly those that emerge from inside rather than outside. Sometimes I conceive them when I'm drifting into sleep."
All the craft associated with hyperrealism is present in Ellen Jewett's art. You could almost mistake each sculpture for a real creature, but up close, a bird's feathers are blades of grass, a deer's antlers are formed of tree branches.
