A Symphony in Thread: The Tapestry of Anna Torma

What do gardens, anatomical figures and monsters all have in common? Among other motifs, they all happily inhabit the fibres of Anna Torma’s embroidered tapestries. Reminiscent of a frenzied personal graffiti, the Hungarian-born artist’s dynamically composed pieces never fail to completely captivate viewers’ imaginations. Influenced by the work of artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly and […]

Lisa Creskey: Telling Stories with Clay

Lisa Creskey, “Mirror” (detail), 2012 (Image used with artist’s permission)

It was such a happy accident that I discovered the work of local ceramic artist Lisa Creskey. A couple of years ago, I mistook her for another artist colleague with the same first name. We emailed back and forth until one day I […]