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Varda Artists Residency

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Creatives in residence


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Caroline R. Kaufman
Feb 12, 2019
Caroline R. Kaufman
Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019
Fabiana Burr
Feb 2, 2019
Fabiana Burr
Feb 2, 2019
Feb 2, 2019
Harriet Lee-Merrion Returning Artist
Jan 10, 2019
Harriet Lee-Merrion Returning Artist
Jan 10, 2019
Jan 10, 2019
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We’re joined by Fabiana Burr @sugusforjesus this month at Varda Artist Residency. She is a sound and video artist driven by the poetics of evolutive spontaneous collaborations. Fabiana experiments mostly with water dancing meditations and the cultivating vibrations of the human voice. To constantly find ways to embrace the body as a temple of sound, composing soundscapes made of evocative chantings, percussion instruments and the resonance of elemental breathing techniques.
We’re joined by Fabiana Burr @sugusforjesus this month at Varda Artist Residency. She is a sound and video artist driven by the poetics of evolutive spontaneous collaborations. Fabiana experiments mostly with water dancing meditations and the cultivating vibrations of the human voice. To constantly find ways to embrace the body as a temple of sound, composing soundscapes made of evocative chantings, percussion instruments and the resonance of elemental breathing techniques.
Joining us this month at Varda Artist Residency, is @crosekauf , a New York City-based textile designer, well known for her experimental textiles, hand painted prints, and playful point of view. Caroline's textiles and patterns have been used across fashion, homeware, accessories, stationery, murals, furniture, fabrics and many other dreamy surfaces.

While at Varda, Caroline will be experimenting with a new piece of equipment: an antique tufting gun. This tool knots fiber through monks cloth backing on a large frame loom, a technique that combines her painting practice with her love of textiles.

Caroline carries a deep respect for storytelling and handcrafted art. She uses her painting practice to understand a limitless way of designing clothing and objects. Plants, animals, bikes, beetles, stripes, interiors, nostalgia, and dreams all provide inspiration for her craft. Her work finds a home in the space where art and design collide --the magic intersection of beauty and function. 
She currently lives and works in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2014 with a BFA in Fashion Design.
Joining us this month at Varda Artist Residency, is @crosekauf , a New York City-based textile designer, well known for her experimental textiles, hand painted prints, and playful point of view. Caroline's textiles and patterns have been used across fashion, homeware, accessories, stationery, murals, furniture, fabrics and many other dreamy surfaces.

While at Varda, Caroline will be experimenting with a new piece of equipment: an antique tufting gun. This tool knots fiber through monks cloth backing on a large frame loom, a technique that combines her painting practice with her love of textiles. Caroline carries a deep respect for storytelling and handcrafted art. She uses her painting practice to understand a limitless way of designing clothing and objects. Plants, animals, bikes, beetles, stripes, interiors, nostalgia, and dreams all provide inspiration for her craft. Her work finds a home in the space where art and design collide --the magic intersection of beauty and function. 
She currently lives and works in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2014 with a BFA in Fashion Design.
Musician & dreamer Maya Hall in residence at Varda captured on the houseboat deck by @shannonmaypowell 🌹wearing @__softwear__ 🎀
Musician & dreamer Maya Hall in residence at Varda captured on the houseboat deck by @shannonmaypowell 🌹wearing @__softwear__ 🎀
British illustrator @harrietleemerrion joins us at Varda Artist Residency. Her dream-like illustrations are rendered in a wash of pastel colours and intricate black lines. Her influences include botanical engravings, surrealism and Japanese woodblock prints. She says that she enjoys to create create ‘poetic and surreal images that require close attention and reflection.’ Harriet lives and works in Bristol, UK.
British illustrator @harrietleemerrion joins us at Varda Artist Residency. Her dream-like illustrations are rendered in a wash of pastel colours and intricate black lines. Her influences include botanical engravings, surrealism and Japanese woodblock prints. She says that she enjoys to create create ‘poetic and surreal images that require close attention and reflection.’ Harriet lives and works in Bristol, UK.
@ybryksenkova joins us at Varda Artist Residency this month. Her magical, mysterious illustrations are meticulously hand-painted in fine detail. 
Among her influences she names, Eastern European folk art, Indian miniature painting, Pre-Raphaelite photography, Persian royal portraiture, not to mention he love of Russian’s Silver Age. 
To gather ideas says that ’Reading, spending ample time with art and nature, and doing lots of what Virginia Woolf called "street haunting" around my city’ is an important part of the process. 
Yelena is from St. Petersburg, Russia, grew up in Cleveland, and currently lives in L.A.
@ybryksenkova joins us at Varda Artist Residency this month. Her magical, mysterious illustrations are meticulously hand-painted in fine detail. Among her influences she names, Eastern European folk art, Indian miniature painting, Pre-Raphaelite photography, Persian royal portraiture, not to mention he love of Russian’s Silver Age. To gather ideas says that ’Reading, spending ample time with art and nature, and doing lots of what Virginia Woolf called "street haunting" around my city’ is an important part of the process. Yelena is from St. Petersburg, Russia, grew up in Cleveland, and currently lives in L.A.
Brazilian novelist and short story writer Clarice Lispector, “Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.”
― From the novel Agua Viva, A Breath of Life
Brazilian novelist and short story writer Clarice Lispector, “Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.” ― From the novel Agua Viva, A Breath of Life
We’re joined by Fabiana Burr @sugusforjesus this month at Varda Artist Residency. She is a sound and video artist driven by the poetics of evolutive spontaneous collaborations. Fabiana experiments mostly with water dancing meditations and the cultivating vibrations of the human voice. To constantly find ways to embrace the body as a temple of sound, composing soundscapes made of evocative chantings, percussion instruments and the resonance of elemental breathing techniques. Joining us this month at Varda Artist Residency, is @crosekauf , a New York City-based textile designer, well known for her experimental textiles, hand painted prints, and playful point of view. Caroline's textiles and patterns have been used across fashion, homeware, accessories, stationery, murals, furniture, fabrics and many other dreamy surfaces.

While at Varda, Caroline will be experimenting with a new piece of equipment: an antique tufting gun. This tool knots fiber through monks cloth backing on a large frame loom, a technique that combines her painting practice with her love of textiles.

Caroline carries a deep respect for storytelling and handcrafted art. She uses her painting practice to understand a limitless way of designing clothing and objects. Plants, animals, bikes, beetles, stripes, interiors, nostalgia, and dreams all provide inspiration for her craft. Her work finds a home in the space where art and design collide --the magic intersection of beauty and function. 
She currently lives and works in New York City. She graduated from Pratt Institute in 2014 with a BFA in Fashion Design. Musician & dreamer Maya Hall in residence at Varda captured on the houseboat deck by @shannonmaypowell 🌹wearing @__softwear__ 🎀 British illustrator @harrietleemerrion joins us at Varda Artist Residency. Her dream-like illustrations are rendered in a wash of pastel colours and intricate black lines. Her influences include botanical engravings, surrealism and Japanese woodblock prints. She says that she enjoys to create create ‘poetic and surreal images that require close attention and reflection.’ Harriet lives and works in Bristol, UK. @ybryksenkova joins us at Varda Artist Residency this month. Her magical, mysterious illustrations are meticulously hand-painted in fine detail. 
Among her influences she names, Eastern European folk art, Indian miniature painting, Pre-Raphaelite photography, Persian royal portraiture, not to mention he love of Russian’s Silver Age. 
To gather ideas says that ’Reading, spending ample time with art and nature, and doing lots of what Virginia Woolf called "street haunting" around my city’ is an important part of the process. 
Yelena is from St. Petersburg, Russia, grew up in Cleveland, and currently lives in L.A. Brazilian novelist and short story writer Clarice Lispector, “Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers: but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.”
― From the novel Agua Viva, A Breath of Life