Inspirational

I am so pleased to be a featured artist in issue #7 of Inspirational, a 201-page magazine from John Hopper from The Textile Blog. 

For every issue, John highlights a group of 8 artists from a wide range of creative disciplines. He not only includes an extensive number of images of their artwork, he writes an accompanying article focused on how each artist perceives the world around them and, in turn, how that unique perception is projected back onto the world within their art.

In John's words: "Mixed media to Seth is a medium of freedom, of layers of expectation, and of expression. It is the bringing together of events, often long dissociated from the materials used, but still nevertheless imbued with an essence. It is a scattering of old memories, and the bringing together of the new."

"As an artist he takes note of the nature of streets and the people that inhabit those streets. Life is all about attachments, connections, imbuing space and time with meaning and understanding."

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Earlier issues of Inspirational have highlighted a diverse group of artists including some of my favorites such as Chris Keegan, India Flint, Patricia Oblack, Cas Holmes, Wen Redmond, Annie Coe, Jude Hill and Elizabeth Bunsen.

You can read more details about Inspirational, download a free sample feature, and purchase issues here.

New Artists & Makers

Last November, a new print magazine from Interweave called Artists & Makers was released. It seamlessly blends creativity with business and contains topical and useful articles about every aspect of being a working artist. The editor, Jeannine Stein, shared her thoughts with me about the publication in a previous blog post here.

The second issue has just been released and it looks every bit as good as issue one. Take a minute and have a look inside here.

Artists and Makers

These days, a big announcement about a print magazine usually means that the publication is shutting down. Happily, Interweave -- the crew who publish Cloth Paper Scissors - has just released the first issue of a new print magazine called Artist & Makers. And it is good. You are gonna wanna have this one.

The features in this magazine bring the perfect blend of art and business. It almost seems more like a workshop for creative entrepreneurs who are trying to take their creative passions to the next level.

 It is filled with artist profiles, practical tips and supportive approaches. 

Thankfully it does not sugar-coat the creative world but rather shines a light on both the struggles and successes that we all as creatives experience.

 The magazine has a fresh feel, in part because by far the majority of people featured in and contributing to the magazine are outside the usual suspects that are typically seen in our community's magazines.

I contacted Jeannine Stein, the editor of both Artist & Makers and Cloth Paper Scissors, and asked her to share her thoughts about this publication with my readers (and by 'my readers'  I mean you).

In her words..."I've heard from so many artists that they've been looking for a magazine like this -- a publication with up-to-the-minute information on navigating all aspects of the business world, plus great features and profiles. It was really important that the magazine have a peer-to-peer feeling, and I think we've achieved that. Our columnists and many of our contributors are people who are artists and makers themselves, or who work with artists on a daily basis. They live what they write about. Artists & Makers is a fun, lively, entertaining read and I would love to hear everyone's feedback on it."

Click over to Artists & Makers Winter 2015 for more info and to order your own copy.