Source Design You Trust  Based in Oakland, California, fiber artist Meghan Shimek creates large scale woven wall hangings and sculptures. Her engaging work is ethereal, whimsical and delicate, but rooted in the warm, earthy materials she uses. Exploring organic movement, Shimek’s weaving style allows the fibers to fall into an indeterminate pattern that reveals the…

Source Design You Trust  Eric Pause is a Canadian artist who uses geometrical shapes to create acrylic paintings that capture “fractured moments of time.” The artist’s goal is to “capture multiple moments and splice them into a single image” and give viewers a sense of the passage of time compared to viewing a single moment.…

Source Design You Trust  According to Andrii Denysenko: “In May, I joined the volunteers who have been helping rebuild villages of Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine damaged by the Russian army. Around 15-20 volunteers go there twice a week. We have already restored more than 20 houses and helped about 150 families with materials for repair.…

Source Design You Trust  Tuan Nini is a versatile Malaysian artist and illustrator currently based in Bucharest, Romania. “I believe that the visual language employed is inseparable from the message, so I find something specific within each project to bring forward visually, using my understanding and adaptability of diverse illustrative styles. I especially love to…

Source Design You Trust  UK-based environmental artist Steve Messam’s works seek to explore and uncover the layers of narrative within the rural environment, frequently drawing on existing uses of the land and reflecting an understanding of the geological, cultural and agricultural practices already being used to shape the landscape. From working with farmers to re-imagining…

Source Artsy Shark  Painter Rebecca Berman creates dreamy whimsical characters with expressive eyes. Enjoy her portfolio and view more art on her website.   “Fern” acrylic on board, 8″ x 8″   I love a good story. If I don’t understand someone’s behavior, I make up a backstory to fill the void. I make up…

Source Colossal   “The Womb” (2019), Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. All images © Rebecca Louise Law, shared with permission. Photograph by Chuck Heiney For millennia, dried flowers have been prepared for a vast array of uses ranging from decoration and fragrance to pigments and medicine. British artist Rebecca Louise Law taps into our perennial…

Source Colossal   All images © Levon Biss, shared with permission A photographer known for using the macro to investigate the micro, Levon Biss (previously) continues his explorations into the vast world of entomology. His recent butterfly pupae series centers on “the diversity of design and form” through illuminating portraits of approximately 30 specimens as they…