John Langford and Jim Sherraden

Cupid (Red Figure)

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its sh...

Welsh-born Chicago resident Jon Langford has entwined his artistic & musical careers for several decades. His love of American honky tonk music and its shared roots with English folk music both informs and inhabits his work. Jim Sherraden has been an active printmaker since 1980, and since 1984 his work has been synonymous with Hatch Show Print...

Sylvia Vander Sluis’s “Dense Space” is a tactile and colorful abstract mixed media collage on canvas. Black and orange dominate with touches of red and purple. In this 24 x 24 x 1.5 ...

Sylvia Vander Sluis’s “One Step at a Time” is a visual metaphor for breaking free from sorrow. This 16 x 20 x 1.5 inch mixed media collage incorporates acrylic paint, paper, woodcut,...

Sylvia Vander Sluis’s “Criss Cross: Yellow, Pink” is 26 x 33 x 1.5 inches. Subtle colors dominate, creating a quiet mood, with spots of yellow and purple. Materials include paper, fa...

Signed lower right, 'Barbara Johnson' (American, 1927-2021) and titled, lower left, 'Oberon Series 1'. Exhibited: Carmel Art Association, circa 1995 (accompanied by original label) ...

I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clipped, sanded flush with the surface, then polished. The result is a pattern of shiny dots of various dimeters. I create objects and furniture that is generally modern in form but highly decorated with as many as 11,000 nails. I use this nail inlay technique to make non-functional objects. The first were wall pieces. These pieces are not for a particular customer so I am much more free to express myself. The imagery and patterns are culled from endless web searches. A favorite has been Japanese stencils called katagami. I have hundreds saved and an equal number altered to fit my liking. My current interest is searching images from artist’s sketchbooks. A favorite is a very quick Donald Judd sketch of a simple object to be fabricated with a large “$60,000” written above. I have also used prints and drawings by my father. My current work involves nail patterns on firewood from my Father’s wood pile. He died 20 years ago but his wood pile remains untouched. He was the minimalist’s minimalist - constructing large sculptures from a few strands of yarn. The installation space is transformed with this simple use of this simple material. He was proud that he could build a meaningful sculpture with 50 cents...

I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clip...