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I was blown away when I found Dorothy McGuinness‘ work. She creates these beautiful sculptures out of watercolor paper painted with acrylic paint, and waxed linen.

Photography © Dorothy McGuinness ↓

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Her incredible journey started when she took a basket making class in 1987. It was called Creative Basket Making. Dorothy thought that it would be a fun craft to learn. She was hooked.

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In the artist’s own words: “I am intrigued by the potential outcome of any new design. The evolution of my body of work is built on taking risks, and avoiding the “known”.

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“The risks offer challenges, which often lead to new directions. This is the excitement that keeps me working in a repetitive medium: it is an on-going meditation on improvisation, a continual experiment through which my work can progress and develop.”

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Dorothy’s work in paper is the perfect example of how far you can take a material if you take risks and avoid the known, as she says. She is a true inspiration to me.

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 I invite you to visit Dorothy’s website to see more of her remarkable work.

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