Laser Engraved Wood Art

When I started my artistic career, I looked to the most immediate and most abundant resource I had at my disposal, namely, junk mail. The prospect of reusing what was to become trash appealed to my concern for the environment. Moreover, the transformation of that which is worthless into something valuable resonated with my journey of reinventing my life. I now create tapestries, reliefs, and sculptures using office paper, magazines, newspapers, and phone books. I carefully sort through the material available to create a color palette. Then, I roll, coil, and weave to form different textures, shapes, and varying levels of relief. The result is a series of artworks that…

Brent was born in Cody, WY and spent the first 14 years of his childhood living in the small town of Basin, WY. After that his family moved to Artesia, NM, where he spent the next four years before going to the University of Oklahoma to study meteorology. He spent the subsequent 14 years in the Oklahoma City metro area. In late 2021 he made the move to northwest Arkansas (NWA) and now calls Springdale, AR home. Brent found his passion for photography after receiving a DSLR as a Christmas gift in 2007, after his first semester of college. Although a bit overwhelming at first, he slowly learned how to…

Mixed media artist, Melissa Milton, makes the most of her Amazon shipping boxes by converting them into cardboard sculptures that she then varnishes to create striking works of art.

Janie Baber uses repurposed fence pickets, blocks of wood, magazine pages, buttons, seashells and other used and natural items to create her work. Her highly texturized and colorful acrylic paint creates a wide variety of works of whimsical and natural subjects.