Jen Osborn is a third generation artist who lives in rural Michigan with her family. She loves blending vintage photographs with new techniques to let you experience a burst of color as fabric and paper are stitched together to create tiny stories to tease your eye and tickle your heart. She loves to work within the mixed-media world, creating collage on canvas, felt or paper, but has recently branched out into handmade books, journals and purses. She has developed a cutting edge technique for manipulating transparency images with fire that has been published in Transparent Art and Somerset Workshop 2. She loves to teach and has been doing so for 3 years both locally and nationally. Her work has been published in the following: Somerset Studio Magazine - Septembr/October 2007 Issue – Gorey Details & Multiple Halloween Pieces; Somerset Studio Magazine – January/February 2007 Issue – The Birthday Girl; 2008 Amber Lotus Collage Calendar – November “The Teardrop Fairy”; In This House - Quarry Books due July 2007 – Miss Bea’s Home for Naughty Boys and Girls; Artist Trading Card Workshop by Bernadette Berlin - Northlight Books due December 2006; Somerset Workshop 2 – A Somerset Studio Publication October 2006; Somerset Studio Magazine – May/June 2006 Issue – Quilting the 7 Deadly Sins; Transparent Art - A Somerset Studio Publication October 2005; Art Play 2006 Calendar – Amber Lotus Publishing – March “Spring Cleaning”; Artist Trading Cards – An Anthology of ATCs – Stampington & Company December 2004; Dog Eared Magazine – Turtle Press – Issue 12 Fabric Books: A Book Artist’s Trip to the Fabric Store by Kerrie Carbary & Sewing Paper by Dona Bumgarner. Email: identity7@sbcglobal.net |
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Just Hanging at Home - Thursday evening |
Jen Osborn |