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Point Farm's lavender labyrinth. Shelby, Michigan.

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Moon Masquerade

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Cockpit Black And Grey

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My cartoon for this week’s @guardian books

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Anonymous photographer, Japan, 1954 / Courtesy Galerie Lumière des Roses / source

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My shop and art-for-sale will be closed from August 2nd to September 2nd. Please get your order in now if you need anything. (There are only two copies of this print left): www.tomgauld.com/shop

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Tzu Ting Wang (b. 1987, Taiwan) works mostly with pencil drawing on cotton fabric. These drawings are displayed in a sequence as if they were different chapters extracted from a book.

She received a BA from Taipei National University of the Arts and a MA from Chelsea College of Arts, London. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Taipei Artist Village in Taiwan, CFCCA in Manchester, and Project fulfill art space in Taiwan.

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Color wheels. Page from the book "Tables for Color Science" by V. Zikeyev (1935).

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Beautiful and scary copperplate engravings by Saki Murakami (born 1992, Japan).

Saki was born in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture where her family was running a veterinary clinic. She herself underwent a life-or-death heart operation at the age of four, and has been troubled for many years by the fragmented memory of the fear.

After graduating from Takasaki University of Economics High School, she went to Musashino Art University to study copperplate printmaking.

Pain, trauma, disturbing thoughts, emotional wounds - all are expressed into the process of copperplate printing. "For me, the copperplate represents the human heart, the wounds I make represent psychological trauma, the ink I fill the wounds with represents blood, and the paper I print onto represents bandages or gauze," Saki says.

While studying at the university's graduate school, Saki Murakami received numerous awards. She has a studio in her hometown of Takasaki.

http://www.tokinowasuremono.com/artist-e65.../index.html

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Maya Hanisch was born in Santiago de Chile in 1981. She studied graphic design at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile and illustration and painting at the SMFA (School of the Museum of Fine Arts) in Boston.

Since 2008, she has published several children's books as an author, with publishers in various countries. In addition to writing books and illustrating children, she also works in advertising and press; she has taught illustration classes at the Catholic University of Chile and at the National Library of her country.

https://www.instagram.com/maya_hanisch/

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A few interiors by painter Mary Sauer, born in Greenville, Kentucky in 1986.

She aims to combine the nineteenth century techniques of painting with modern ideas.

“I am interested in the pressure of perfection that we face in today's social structure. In our current society, we often allow social media to control the expectations of the path our lives should lead. This can lead to a false public identity that is more about display than actual interaction, while hiding one’s true self. I hope to call attention to these new social norms that are impeding our mental ability to reach out to others and allow us to accept both our beauty and imperfections."

Mary Sauer's paintings attract attention to the idea of "image manufacturing" at the expense of seeing beauty in true natural images, colour harmonies, spirit of scenes and feelings they inspire.

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Ilhéu da Vila In Azores islands | danielkordan

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Mira, Shooting Star

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Architect and illustrator Rafael Araujo (born 1957 in Caracas, Venezuela) expresses his love of nature through geometry. Incorporating the golden spiral and helixes into his compositions, he uses these concepts as the basis for shells and kaleidoscopes of butterflies. The results are drawings in which the natural elements are sketched and colored in while the geometric guiding lines are left on the page.

Rafael Araujo says: "As an autodidact, my work is the outcome of years of persistence, trial an error upon the theme of tridimensional geometry and the “platonic” search of the illusion of the “Truth”, by means of the development of structures which could perfectly be described as illustrated equations of natural subjects: shells, butterflies’ spirals, etc

I do all by hand, on my drawing board with classical architectural drawing tools (a compass, protractor, squares and rules) and I do not use any kind of computer software."

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My latest Guardian Books cartoon

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I've reopened the Shop and Art For Sale on my website. This artwork plus other prints, drawings and postcards are available now. www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale www.tomgauld.com/shop