Not to Draw or Paint on Canvas — But Vibrant Images After years of struggling to be a painter, I realized that my calling was not to draw or paint on canvas, but instead to mold inanimate objects into vibrant images.” —Federico Uribe Visit Federico Uribe’s gallery web page. More from Federico Uribe in The…
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Tatiana Rivero Sanz | In Her Own Words
Sculpture, Dance, Performance— A Photographer’s Personal Journey By Tatiana Rivero Sanz [dropcap]T[/dropcap]atiana Rivero Sanz is a photographer who creates her own indoor props for her photos and incorporates sculpture and performance. Prior to this process, she primarily photographed out in nature, until she had a bad fall on one of her excursions: I had just…
Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Satoshi Aki | Video
Composer & Photographer— A melody inspired by her photos… Tana Onceuponatimetana’s 150205—a collaboration between American photographer Tatiana Rivero Sanz and Japanese composer Satoshi Aki. [dropcap]M[/dropcap]y photos grow from an elaborate process, which involves a whole installation. In my own studio I first paint the walls, then I create one or two sculptures that represent a dilemma,…
Woven Tale Press Editor Jo Ely | In Her Own Words
Writing My First Novel Jo Ely [dropcap]I[/dropcap]f truly committed, one can always find time to write–poet Salena Godden gets up at 4 am, and short story writer and novelist Jacqueline Crooks would write on buses and trains, commuting to her seven-day-a-week job. Not many people have that kind of commitment, and I am no exception. I…
Literary Spotlight: J.G. McClure
The Deer J. G. McClure [dropcap]G[/dropcap]lass. Glass and blood not his own. His own mistake—the drinks, the brakes too late. Too late for the deer sprawled in the dark, slick road. Slick roads, he thought, it’s these slick fucking roads. Not the drinks. The man stood in the road and watched the woman watch the…
Fine Arts and the Literary
Fine Arts and Literary Book The Woven Tale Press Selected Works By Editor-in-Chief Sandra Tyler [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he idea for a selected works was generated last year, when we were collaborating with a gallery featuring Woven Tale Press artists. The intent of the book was similar to that of the exhibition: to present the diversity of fine arts and literary…
David Gaffney | In His Own Words
[dropcap]D[/dropcap]avid Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Manchester. The Guardian says that “One-hundred-and-fifty words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than novels by a good many others.” He is the author of several books of fiction and flash fiction, including Sawn-Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), The Half-Life of…
Tin Jewelry | Video
By Annariitta Saarelainen Watch her make jewelry from tin… [dropcap]H[/dropcap]ere is my latest video, about making tin jewelry. It is a way to make smaller things as opposed to working in iron or bronze. I was trying these as an experiment so that I could do some casting at home, where I could easily achieve…
Art, Coffee, Tea and Blogs
By Donald Kolberg So my doctor said I should cut down on coffee…I think I’ll cut down on doctors. So here it is May. The weather has warmed (if you live somewhere other than Florida, where its been warm for quite awhile), your fingers don’t ache as much from the cold and you’re ready to…
Printing on Feathers
Always seagulls calling overhead By Rebecca Jewell See her work in WTP Vol. IV #3 [dropcap]I[/dropcap] work almost every day, printing in my studio at the Chocolate Factory in London. Although it is in the heart of Wood Green, there are always seagulls calling overhead. Dipping and diving, they remind me of Cornwall where I…
Art Spotlight: Joyce Kubat
Couple: Pastel on Paper Technique allows her to “…change anything at any time, forever” [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he heavy-bodied acrylic-based ink [I use] is red-earth colored, like blood, and the hard pastels melted in water are like paint. My technique allows me to change anything at any time, forever. Even an ink line can be made narrower with…
WTP Artist: Denitza
A Constant Experiment with Space, Lines, and Shapes By Denitza [dropcap]T[/dropcap]he featured pictures are the making and the final result of the painting “Lazurite,” 26 × 26 inch acrylic/enamel on canvas. The work was painted with all blue-tone acrylics on canvas, and was meant as a central piece for the fall edition of the Affordable…