Well done to Sammie, who wins £300 of Winsor & Newton Fine Art Materials of her Choice. Here’s some more information on Sammie and how she’ll be using her prize.
Artist Sammie Edgar at first found solace in her unique ‘word art’ – then she found her calling.
She uses a mixture of materials to create the bespoke work, including 3D paint, acrylics and coloured marker pens. She then takes her customers’ words and paints them in a graffiti-style jumble to form a picture on all manner of items.
Prices start from just a few pounds for personalised greetings cards, to £10 for glass, heart-shaped fridge magnets, £15 for mini-canvasses and £20 for mirrors. Larger canvasses range from as little as £35 to hundreds of pounds, depending on the commission.
Her work comes in all kind of guises, including words painted into the shape of a person’s initials, with the words all reflecting that person’s personality traits, emotions or memories. She also creates silhouettes of children, littered with words describing them – ideal for birthday presents or Christening gifts.
“There’s a variety of reasons why people want me to commit their words to art, it may to be record a special moment like a marriage, a birth, or an anniversary, an act of remembrance or even an affirmation of how they feel or want to feel.”
To read more of this article visit her recent article in the Birmingham Post here. For more information or to commission a piece, call Sammie on 07891 734777, email smee-art@hotmail.co.uk, or visit www.journeyofwords.co.uk.
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