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The Israeli textile and illustration designer Reouth Erez, who is based in Tel Aviv, has a passion for combining literature, philosophy and art, along with a practical design vision. This creative combination is clearly seen in Reouth's Ekphrasis project. Ekphrasis or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. In ancient times, it referred to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The work comes from the Greek 'ek' and 'phrasis', 'out' and 'speak' respectively, and the verb 'ekphrazein' "to proclaim or call an inanimate object by name." In her Ekphrasis textile project Reouth wanted to actually 'revive' classical texts (poetry) from different places and times (eg: Edgar Allen Poe, Pushkin, the Israeli poet Yehuda ...

Welcome to the 17 th  issue of Inspirational magazine. In this issue inspirational features interviews with four new artists, as well as one previous featured artist with new work, a community article, a project article, a book review, and events pages highlighting exhibitions and art events from around the world. Feature artist:   Akiko Suzuki  is the internationally renowned Japanese textile/fiber artist. She has worked in a range of disciplines and collaborated creatively and highly successfully with fellow creative artists on an international stage. Akiko gives an in-depth interview and shows a range of her work in this Inspirational feature.          Feature artist:   Amy Oliver  is a profound British conceptual artist that works with her own experiences regarding among other subjects – mental health, women’s rights, abuse and identity. Amy gives an in-depth interview and shows a range of her work in this Inspirationa...

Deborah Kruger: Kansai (screen printing on fused plastic bags, sewing), 2018 (69" x 72" x 1") The artist Deborah Kruger uses her creativity to understand the world around her, specifically the natural world, its problems in trying to adapt to enforced changes by humans, and ultimately the shifts that are forced on ourselves through those changes. Her work is about movement, migration, change, uprooting. In the following interview Deborah helps explain her view of the world, her perspective, her creative understanding. Migration is a big part of the Plumage series. At first it seems that the theme is purely devoted to bird migration, but you have expanded the definition to mean so much more. What else does it include? DEK: Like most artists, I learn about the world through making art. Initially, the work was purely about birds and their migration. Over time, I realized that the interruptions to bird migration due to habitat destruction were parallel to the migrations of ...

Welcome to the 16 th issue of Inspirational magazine. In this issue inspirational features interviews with four new artists, one previous featured artist with new work, a talent spot artist, a book review, and events pages highlighting exhibitions and art events from around the world. Aline Brant  is a Brazilian-based artist that produces embellished and embroidered work over and through photographs, connecting the figures in the photographs to a larger, expansive reality, one that rejoices in colour and nature. Debra Fritts  is a US-based  sculptor that produces amazingly h aunting figurative work, images that are part of narratives that are magical, otherworldly, but at the same time rooted in our own experiences. Rita Summers  is an Australian-based artist, designer and passionate eco dyer, and upcycler. Her work in awareness of who we are, where we are, and the impact our lives have on everything and everyone around us is an example of how creativity c...

10 years online. 350+ contemporary artists featured. 15 reference books written 15 issues of an art magazine produced. 40 art magazine and book articles written. International jurying. A wealth of exhibition and book reviews. From The Textile Blog to Inspirational and beyond ...inspiring creativity. http://thetextileblog.blogspot.com/ https://inspirational-magazine.blogspot.com/

Earlier in the week I interviewed founder and non-stop advocator of TAFA (the Textile And Fiber Art list), Rachel Biel. Rachel has an exciting new direction for TAFA, one that she explains fully in the following interview: New visions, new directions are always exciting. You have a new vision for TAFA. What is that new vision?  I launched TAFA in 2010 when social media was just starting to become a powerful tool in how we communicate on the web. The goal was to create an organization that focused on the business side of running a textile/fiber art business along with creating a destination that truly reflected the best of what is happening in our field around the world. The membership has grown into a true testament of the innovation and broad reach of our industry, from the historical handmade traditions to experimental approaches involving new technologies. As our focus in on the business side of what we do, most of our members seek to make a living at what they do. This led to c...