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Artist Sarah Graham on raising awareness for bipolar disorder and how art saved her life

Creative Boom

Sarah Graham has become a renowned British artist for her fun and joyful kitsch paintings, paying homage to familiar toys, sweets and brands from the 1980s and 1990s. She attempted suicide by overdose twice between 2005 and 2015 until she was sectioned in 2017 and then reclassified as Type 1 bipolar.

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Emotional, expressive, evocative: Illustrator Ilya Kazakov is proving that cute is the way forward

Creative Boom

From contemplative cats to wide-eyed bat skeletons and even Santa on an exercise bike, Ilya Kazakov's cartoony characters are helping the artist build his own community of fans and clients around the world. However, there's a lot more than snow and long white beards to this artist's story.

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The Bristol Dinosaur roars again in Cabot Circus

Creative Boom

Bristol-based illustrator and mural artist Andy Council has unveiled the latest in his ongoing series of dinosaur images in the city's Cabot Circus shopping centre. Covering 60 square metres, it's one of the biggest yet and, as with previous works by the artist, features buildings and landmarks from across Bristol.

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Northern Lights: Chris Cyprus's paintings capture the bygone beauty of sodium-lit streets

Creative Boom

Manchester-based artist Chris Cyprus has recorded the distinctive glow of the city's sodium-lit lamps in Northern Lights, a series of 250 paintings illuminated with warmth from lights that are sadly no more. There's something magical about walking around at night.

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Sabina Speich crafts large-scale pizza, bacon and chips through her 'freestyle' method of crochet

Creative Boom

From eggs to bacon, pizza to noodle soup, the artist has no limits when it comes to subject matter and creativity. Art has been my purpose all my life," she says, having grown up in Winterthur, Switzerland, to an artist father who supported her crafts from an early age. © Sabina Speich. Sabina Speich is a creator of all things yarn.

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F5: Paper Artist Zoe Bradley Shares a Go-To Pen, Favorite Liqueur + More

Design Milk

“I aim to create a truly unique hand-crafted product from paper that celebrates the beautiful, unique architectural forms of nature,” said Wales-based paper artist Zoe Bradley. Zoe’s love of skill working with paper first emerged while making showpieces for designer Michiko Koshino’s A/W 2005 show.

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Big Cartel by How&How

BP&O

Big Cartel launched in 2005 as a low-cost, easily customisable ecommerce platform specifically aimed at artists and other creatives. In the two decades since, the platform has quietly revolutionised what it is to be an independent maker, powering more than $2.5

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