Noelia in the Spotlight
Hello, all you fabulous people! It’s really good to be back. After over two weeks of being detached from this community, I’m really happy to plug back in. I’ve not had a lot of time to do research for this week’s additional two posts, so no theme this week. Just some quick peeks at what people have been up to.
I had hoped to meet up with one or two polymer people in Spain but it was hard to carve out time as I was only in Barcelona and was with 22 other family members. But I did stop to see what our Spanish folks have been up to and saw that Noelia Contreras Martín has been quite the busy girl lately. She hails from Ripollet, a town just outside Barcelona proper. Her work has enjoyed the spotlight in print this year.
This image is from her tutorial in Polymer Week, the new-ish magazine out of the Czech Republic which just released its spring issue in PDF. Noelia was also featured in Polymere & Co. earlier this year in an artistic interview article. It’s no surprise the attention she’s getting, with her clean lines and bright colors. If you’re unfamiliar with her work you can pick up one of these magazines or visit her Instagram or her Facebook page. And if you are, by chance, in Spain next month you might consider joining her at Polimeralia, a three-day workshop event in Valencia, Spain, August 3-7, 2018.
Also, these two magazines mentioned may be just the thing you’re looking for to fill in the gaps left by Polymer Café and From Polymer to Art. Polymer Week, available in English and Czech, offers project tutorials and interviews geared to inspire and inform hobbyists and newer clayers in our community. Polymere & Co. also features project tutorials and interviews but often includes articles discussing technique and some more advanced concepts. However, it is only in French at this time. I get my copies and then copy the text into Google translate for the articles I want to read so it takes a little more work, unless you speak French. It is, however, an inexpensively priced magazine at approximately $6 US/5€ for the digital back issues and $12 shipped to the US/10€ to Europe. Polymer Week is $10 for the digital PDF edition or you can purchase print copies for $18.50 in the US and, it looks like, about an 11.50€ in the EU.
