November Artist of the Month

November 2nd, 2009

I want to give a big thanks to a wonderful person who I’ve recently met at Facebook and Twitter: Wendy Edsall-Kerwin. She is a a jewelry artist and metalsmith who lives in Elizabethtown, PA. She creates beautiful talismans for the home and body inspired by ancient, medieval, and tribal cultures as well as the studio jewelry movement of the last century. Just check out her great jewelry pieces at her website. They look to me like sacred objects for modern shamans from a magical reality!

Wendy has just featured me at her blog as November Artist of the Month and I’m really honored about it. Specially because of her kind words about my work: “reminds me of Edward Gorey or Pan’s Labyrinth. The line detail is exquisite and the fun he has with the pieces is evident and always makes me smile.” Yes, I’m a big fan of Gorey’s Gothic illustrations as well as Guillermo del Toro’s magic reality movie. And it’s such a big pleasure for me to have fun while doing my art work and to know that I can make somebody else smile!

Thank you Wendy. Your talismans and my creatures are sparks of the same reality.

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2 Responses to “November Artist of the Month”

Wendy Edsall-Kerwin says:

November 3, 2009 at 11:59 am

Thank you so much for the kind words! I love the part about my pieces being for modern shamans from a magical reality.
Koldo Barroso says:

November 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Working with your hands is magic

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