I found this delightful art of Sue Britt at a recent juried art festival! Her paper-wrapped, pattern-cut substrates capture scenes from the natural world. This happens to be a tide pool, but she does a range of landscape pieces.
What I loved about her booth was the exemplars of papers she uses for her pieces plus an explanation of her process, and the best part -- her sketchbook with drawings and notes. The sketchbook was so neat to see -- in that I got a better understanding of what catches her eye and inspires her to take that inspiration and develop composition ideas in her sketchbook. Having had an education in architecture, she is a problem-solver. I think that background paired with her very creative eye results in a different kind of art using paper forms to imitate nature scenes than I've seen before.
Because I have lived in coastal communities and visited tide pools, this piece to me truly captures the sense of sea grass movement as water flows over sand and around rocks and stones when the tide is in and that pools in depressions or disappears entirely leaving the grasses and intertidal residents to weather the heat until the next tide comes in. It's all part of the delicate tide pool ecosystem that occasionally boasts the presence of a sea urchin (purple element below) and/or other critters such as starfish and sea anemones along with lots of barnacles.
To see Sue's other work, you can find her here: https://www.papertapestry.net
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