The Mad Market offered art for everyone: cool and crazy. We shared ideas, inspirations and images. Artists used every media – paint, plant, paper, peanut butter. Mad art covered every topic – cartoons to psychosis to cupcakes. The photos below give a very rough idea of the incredible range of mad artists:
Cassandra Arthur brings detail and beauty to the smallest of creations
Christine Shaheen makes multi-textured mad art http://www.christineshaheen.me/
Erin Kotva makes beautiful chain mail
Kyla Bell makes intriguing, inspiring artistic emotions
Moshe Sakal makes abstraction attractive
Samm-kablam-o – upcycled alternative art – https://arisetotrash.wordpress.com/
Brighter views through Stain Glass by Carol Anne Monet
Louise Martin – Author – lessons of her life
Genova tells stories and creates magic
Gail Watson creates art with jewelry or jewelry art.
Bronwen Sims gathered nifty healing plants and made inspiring pots.
Nerissa Hutchinson takes steam punk into an exciting future – steamgummi.weebly.com
Judith Phelan’s mad stories and mad art
Sharing butterflies for kind notes (unicorns)
Iris Jacobs – beautiful images by wet on wet
Mad Baking by Tina Vourinaris
Mad info from Ryerson – Sleep more, try gardening, get a button.
Mad signs of the times
Jewels and art and a plant!
Art making continued at the market!
For next year, look forward to much more publicity and many more vendors!