Blog Posts about Art

Jérôme Boutteçon’s Amazing High Definition Marquetry

While I was composing my previous post — “Cartier Asks Marquetry Master Jérôme Boutteçon To Make A Bear” — my friend Greg Zall called to tell me about an amazing French marquetarian whom he read about in an article in Haute Horlogie Magazine by Françoise Lafuma. Lafuma’s article tells the tale of Jérôme Boutteçon’s quest to master his unique…

Jeff Nelson's New Rainforest Triptych

Jeff Nelson follows his passion for illustrating natural, architectural and imaginary forms with marquetry by periodically embarking on vision quests to some of the world’s most spectacular locations. He practices the art of ‘seeing’ and rendering natural imagery with a sharp drawing pencil and a palette of natural materials. It’s no coincidence that his home…

TRH The Prince of Wales visits ARYMA Marquetry Studio

As part of their annual summer tour of Wales, TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall just visited the specialist marquetry company Aryma in Llandrindod Wells.

Visit with William Tunberg – Artist

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
St. Francis of Assisi

Trend Spotting – June 2011

The Inlay Arts star is rising in the design world and the design world is partially eclipsing the contemporary art scene. Felix Burrichter’s article “Design Miami-Basel Wrap-Up” shed’s light on this matter.

Marquetry Art Juxtaposed

How the Studiolo from Gubbio inspired Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s “Room” Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s remarkable story Taylor was born in 1974 in Selma, Alabama and grew up in Las Vegas. She earned a BFA in 2001 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and an MFA in 2005 from Columbia University. While in…

Marquetry Superyacht Installation Depicts Iconic Architecture

Howard Sansome announces the completion of ARYMA’s latest superyacht installation   I spoke with Howard Sansome, ARYMA’s owner, just after he returned from the Royal Van Lent shipyards in Amsterdam, where the new yacht “Lady Christine IV” is currently docked while the interiors, designed and created by Rodney Black Design Studios, are being completed by…

Cunard and David Linley Honor Queen Elizabeth with Marquetry Artwork

Linley’s Marquetry Artwork Commission Both David Linley and the marquetry traditions of Cunard’s Queen Maryand Queen Elizabeth ocean liners are on my blog post topics to-do list. I’m traveling with my family, thus short on time – here’s the news, starting with the intro from Cunard’s press release and ending with a passage from Sue…

William Tunberg – Fine Artist and Creator of Marquetry Sculpture

Creating Marquetry Sculpture “In creating marquetry sculpture, I call upon my lifelong love of assemblage and classical drawing. My materials are exotic natural and dyed veneers that I fragment, assemble, and reassemble, and ultimately laminate over complex sculptural forms of my own devising. I consider the resulting imagery as personal narratives expressed in my own…

Silas Kopf – A Marquetry Odyssey

“Demystifying marquetry and bringing it into the 21st century is welcome and timely. It’s wonderful that the person who is ‘best at it’ is open to sharing his uncommon vision.” Wendell Castle*     From the review on Amazon: “Neatly interwoven with chapters on the evolutionary history of inlay and marquetry, Silas Kopf takes us…