Since everyone loved Cheeming Boey, here’s another artist working on coffee cups….Paul Westcombe (b. 1981).
His work can be found in London’s Trinity Contemporary and The Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
Cheeming Boey, an artist from Newport Beach, CA, creates his art using a Sharpie and recycled Styrofoam cups. Ever since 2006, Boey started drawing on foam cups as a hobby and has now turned the project into a serious business. Each cup takes a few hours to several months to create. His work was recently on view at the Brea Art Gallery from June 6 to July 9 as part of the show called: “Repurpose, Reuse, Recycle”. Check out his flickr page for more sytrofoamy wonderfulness…. Here is a link to a good interview about his life and influences. His website, at http://iamboey.com/ features his journal in a comic series …very cute!
His cups are available for purchase from his etsy shop and range in price from $140.00 to $250.00 at http://www.etsy.com/shop/boyobsolete. I suspect they are a good investment!
From Melbourne, Australia, the jewelry artist (or jewellerey artist) Mainichi creates playful necklaces from recycled upholstery leather and found materials. Many of her necklaces contain movement with hanging, dangling strings and objects. Other pieces consist of layering leathers with vintage Japanese kimono silk fabric or felt with stitched details. Simply gorgeous.
Read about her adventures in jewelry design, interior design and parenting on her blog: http://www.mainichidesign.blogspot.com/ and check out her flickr site…it is inspirational!
Necklace is $54.00 at Mainichi’s Etsy Shop
Lovely rugs made from recycled T-shirts. I’m sure they are nice and cushy and soft to step on… but the nicest part is that you can just throw these into the washing machine and hang them out to dry. Handcrafted by the talented Etsy seller, Green at Heart, aka Laurine. She has lots of fun designs and many color combinations on her site, also custom work is available. Did someone really request a rug to match her china pattern? Sacrebleu!
$40.00 – $200.00 at Green at Heart’s Etsy Shop
If you are interested in rugs, check out recycled plastic rugs, and more recycled rugs.
This etsy artist raids the compost pile and creates these organic works of art from aproximately 2,600 pieces of a Choke Cherry tree. Custom options are available. 81″ x 23″ x 3″
$5,500.00 at CDeK’s Etsy Shop
