Recycled Art and Artist

For my first post, I thought I should start with a key element of this blog, reycled art and artist.

 When I first starting using the term recycled artist, I would have to explain what I meant.  Even though people have been creating art using recycled materials since way before my time, I knew artists that worked with reycled materials as just plain artists or craftsman.  Now the terms recycled art and recycled artist are fairly common. 

I work with a variety of material…whatever inspires me at the moment.  Sometimes I look at something and it reminds me of something and I just have to complete the picture.  It’s not exactly a perfect method of creating a successful business.  For a long time everything looked like bugs to me.  I made bugs out of bobby pins and wood beads, keys, the bottoms of butter knifes, and a few other things.   You probably get the idea…

Over the years, I’ve come in contact with a circle of other artists using recycled materials, recycled artists.  I started a website about a year ago devoted to my beloved Northwest and recycled art.    I’m working on getting a shopping cart up on that site and would like to feature other recycled artists.