Chaesangjang - Bamboo Master Craftsperson

Seo Han-gyu learned how to handle bamboo strips prior to learning to speak. Needless to say, he has quite a bit of experience in bamboo weaving.

In the small village of Manseong-ri of Damyang-eup, he was born into a family of bamboo craftsmen. The village was surrounded by dense bamboo forests.

The skills he learned from his parents eventually earned him an honorary title, "Chaesangjang" which is an honorary title given by the Korean government to a master crafts-person who possesses a high level of skill and knowledge in the Korean traditional art of weaving colored bamboo strips into boxes and baskets.


Currently, he has produced 37 designs with his own styling and unique color combinations and patterns.

This aesthetic art eventually led him to be awarded the Presidential Prize in the 7th National Craft Contest in 1982.

As a result, he was invited to the USA to give a demonstration of chaesang waving in Lincoln Memorial Hall, Washington DC.












Here is a site that contains more information on him:
http://www.antiquealive.com/masters/m12/master12_view2.html

Mexican Handicraft Dolls

Dolores Leycegui hand-embroiders and paints cloth dolls in a variety of sizes, each with the uni-brow facial feature of Frida Kahlo.

She sells her dolls from her own small-scale craft workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she plans to stay fro the rest of her life.




From an early age, she knew she was going to end up with a career using her sewing and embroidering skills which encompasses her creativity.

Some of this creativity will expand as she travels to different cultural, climatic and physical regions to meet and learn from the local people.

Her 18 years in the doll business didn't just stop there. She also made wood and fabric marionettes, typical with images of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Check out a page on her:
http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/3885-mexico-s-frida-kahlo-in-oaxaca-handicrafts

Edgar Müeller

Born in 1968 in Mülheim, Ruhr, Germany, Edgar Müeller is considered by many to be one of the world's top 3-D illusionist street painters and has been featured as "Maestro Madonnaro" at the largest street painting festival, the Grazie Festival. This name has only been given to a few select artists worldwide. His contemporary street painting features images that change from one picture to another throughout the day due to photo luminescent paints.





Müeller's fascination with painting began in his childhood, with paintings of rural scenes of Straelen. During high school, he won his first international street painting competition at age sixteen. Around the age of 25, Müeller devoted his time completely to street painting. He traveled across Europe, making a living with his transitional art. Concurrently, he created workshops at schools and began the first internet board of street painters in Germany.



For many years Edgar Müller has always looked for new forms of expression and has presented people the great works of old masters, drawing his perfect copies at the observers' feet. Because of his grounding in traditional painting and modern communication, Mueller uses a more simple and graphic language for his art. He paints over large areas of urban public life and gives them a new appearance, thereby challenging the perceptions of passers-by. The observer becomes a part of the new scenery offered. For more artwork, visit http://www.metanamorph.com/

If you got interested in his work and want to buy works of art, please visit our website.