#creature box

✂️ 1st studio Polish paper cutting artist YOLA and DARIA. This talented artist cuts such delicate and intricate designs, we loved hearing about her art process and her stories about her life - we stayed for an hour just to chat to her and make a connection but easily could have stayed all day to hear more tales of her finding cigarette papers and discarded newspaper to do her craft with during a shortage during WW2!

🌿 2nd studio Leaf Studios which has an abundance of amazing artists! This was such a beautiful space, from the blooming arrangement of art in every nook and cranny to the magical creature roaming on the ceiling! I purchased a hand sculpted fly agaric fungi cap incense holder.

🛸 3rd studio was CreatureBoxAu who is an incredible sculptor with a glorious body of work that includes Star Wars and the How To Train Your Dragon Arena shows! In awe of her texture work and dynamic posing in her pieces!

🍄 4th studio was of Martha Iserman Art who does stunningly detailed botanical art and in particular we were enthralled by her fungi pieces. She also had a lovely studio cat! I bought several postcards of her botanical art for my altar.

💐 5th studio was Naturally Dyed which is where an artist does natural fiber dying with indigo and colours extracted from nature and captured in yarn. The ladies here were so welcoming and eager to share deeply with us. Seeing their blue dyed hands was like a ritual mark from their making. I bought four mini skeins to embroider with~