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January 7, 2016 By Cartagram Leave a Comment

Map Expressions on the Move

Çiğdem Menteşoğlu, an artist who has journeyed from Istanbul to Europe and now lives and works in Newcastle, England, is on the move. She feels like a nomad, even when working in her studio. The process of moving is a process of navigating uncertainty in an unstable world, and of changing consciousness about places along the way.

Employing traditional media like oil paint and ink, Çiğdem’s experience of place imbues her creative process with emotion and maps. “My work is based on personal history; every work has its own story exploring the notion of boundaries, both physical and emotional.”

Cigdem Mentesoglu's homepage map painting.

Dünyaevi/Wedlock, 2014, 60×50 cm, oil on canvas

Themes in Çiğdem’s paintings emerge from psychology (both sensation and perception) and philosophy (aesthetics) which underpin the visual mystery and power of memory’s associative realm.
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Filed Under: Design, Maps Tagged With: mixed media, painted maps

April 1, 2013 By Cartagram Leave a Comment

Painting a Personal Cartography

Simonetta Moro (simonettamoro.com), an Italian-born artist now living in New York City, explores the meaning of places she loves and lives through cartography. Approaching maps not as a reader but as a maker, Moro layers the signs and symbols of city nuances in pencil, paint, ink, and pastels.

From the vocabulary of soft pastels and hard-edged colored pencils, Moro traces an autobiographical journey through an intimate geography of the places that hold significance in her life.

detail from Simonetta Moro's Map of my Life painting

Map of My Life (detail)

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March 22, 2013 By Cartagram Leave a Comment

The Map that Flu

Often a map’s last word is spoken at its printing. For artist Sam Hundley (http://samhundley.com), printing is just the beginning.

Hundley, a Virginia artist, enjoys working with mixed media. Starting with this 1996 edition of a National Geographic landform map, Hundley mixed ink and colored pencil to turn a staid map into a capricious editorial illustration.

mixed media U.S. map

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Filed Under: Design, Maps Tagged With: map, mixed media

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