MOVING SALE | Home decor, Chicago artwork, Don Widmer pulp painting

New to Poshmark? Sign up and save $10 on your first purchase with code MISSERIN7 **Reasonable offers welcome. Bigger discounts for bundles! This item comes from a pet-free, smoke-free home. One of a kind artwork created in Chicago’s unique Bridgeport neighborhood. Has a vintage, antique feel to it. Has similar vibes to Restoration Hardware, West Elm and Pottery Barn. Original artwork sized roughly 10” x 14” Don Widmer is a book and paper artist whose work incorporates papermaking and artist bookbinding. His papermaking utilizes detailed pulp painting with numerous layers of stenciled pulp. His artist books feature structures that explore movement and light. Don has exhibited throughout the Midwest, most recently at David Smith Studio, A+C Architects Studio, the Paper Discovery Center, Bridgeport Art Center, Tall Grass Art Gallery, Morgan Conservatory, Gallery Studio Oh!, and Kalamazoo Book Arts Center. He has received several best of show awards and his work is represented in university, museum and library collections. Most recently, the Smithsonian purchased his artist book Darkness and Light, inspired by Etty Hillesum. Widmer received his MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. This handmade paper artwork is “painted” with pigmented flax pump on top of a base sheet made from recycled bed sheets. The entire process, from forming the base sheet to painting the image, is done at the same time while all the fibers are wet.