5 Inspiring Paper Pulp Painting Artists You’ll Love
Personally I love pulp painting on the beach 🏖️. That’s me, having a grand time pouring paper pulp!
Pulp painting is the best art medium the general populace has never heard of. And if you have heard of paper paintings (an image made of only paper pulp), here’s your moment to feel special today 😂.
Here are 5 pulp painting artists to love and admire, in no particular order:
Nancy Cohen
I’ve long-admired Nancy Cohen’s artwork, and her quilt-like pulp paintings are an inspiration—we can see how an artist who also works in sculpture and installation reaches great expression in paper pulp.
Kelly Taylor Mitchell
From Kelly Taylor Mitchell’s artist statement: “Kelly’s multidisciplinary practice centers oral history and ancestral memory, real and imagined, woven into the fabric of the Africana Diaspora. Her work is deeply invested in labor intensive making, slowness, and home-spun passed down processes.” Her work is truly multidisciplinary, and pulp painting falls under the umbrella.
Anela Ming-Yue Oh
Forget rectangular pulp paintings! Anela Oh’s artworks use beautiful colors of paper pulp as an independent, sculptural material that seems to constantly change and transform as you look at them, with imagery drawn from her Malaysian Chinese cultural heritage.
Roberto Mannino
Talk about prolific! Roberto Mannino is an Italian American paper artist based in Rome. I’ve always been inspired by how innovative his work is—you could spend forever trying to figure out how he does everything! Pulp painting and lots of other amazing artistic papermaking techniques.
Claire Van Vliet
Claire Van Vliet is an artist who started Janus Press, which has published A TON of artists’ books over the decades, many of which incorporate pulp painting. On top of that, her prolific body of work includes innovative pulp painting, prints, and book structures. Check out the Boston Athenaeum exhibition of her work:
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There are SO MANY artists working in pulp painting / paper painting / colored pulp these days.
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