textured wall art

Unlock the power of love with Ghanaian artisan Kobina Asmah's inspirational creation. As he beautifully puts it, “This artwork conveys the message of loving each other just like Jesus said, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself.’” This profound idea comes to life in a mesmerizing abstract wall art featuring a girl in prayer. Crafted using the stencil technique, the girl appears to emerge from the sese wood board, treated with glue for texture and rendered with expert strokes of acrylics and charcoal.

Experience the heartfelt artistry of Ghana’s Kobina Asmah, who draws inspiration from his beloved canine companion. “My dog has been with me through my most challenging times,” Asmah reveals. With the ingenious stencil technique, this endearing black and white wall art depicts the adorable dog seemingly emerging from the sese wood board, treated with glue for texture and brought to life with meticulous strokes of acrylics and charcoal.

Mexican artisan J. Blas enjoys creating new designs, such as this appealingly rustic metal wall accent. The artwork depicts two sparrows seated on adjacent branches, both looking in different directions. The diminutive birds are given a deliberately gritty texture for added interest. The wall art is cut from steel sheet and painted by hand.

Create a sacred space in your home with this unique wall art from Ghana's Ali Ibrahim. The artisan crafts the piece from sese wood bars and textured aluminium plate with brass accents in the shape of Gye Nyame, an Adinkra symbol that means, "except for God." Recycled glass beads add textural interest to the art.

“The Earth is our planet, so we need to think about our negative actions that are detrimental to it and ourselves,” says Ghanaian artisan Kobina Asmah. This message is exquisitely conveyed by his stunning relief wall art featuring a world map that will steal the spotlight anywhere you choose to display it. Crafted using the stencil technique, the map seemingly emerges from the sese wood board treated with glue for texture, while a striking palette of blue and bronze hues, achieved with acrylics and charcoal, bestows a mesmerizing rustic allure.

The market stalls are bursting with colorful flowers and sumptuous fruits and vegetables in this hand made arpillera wall hanging by artisan Leonor Quispe of Peru. The artist fills this wall hanging with delectable details and texture, from the petals of the flowers to the traditional clothing of the market sellers to the leafy greens of the produce. A display rod can be inserted into an opening at the top for easy hanging. A cornucopia of color, this arpillera will be a bright and lively focal point for any room.

Designed to convey a greeting to visitors, this intriguing oversize necklace is for wall display. Samuel Lovi works in terracotta to create globes and disks with traditional motifs and textures. Strung by hand on raffia cords, they receive an aged, vintage finish. The artisan names this design Akwaaba, an Akan word meaning "welcome."

"The spiral symbolizes the passing of time, or the duration of natural life," says Marco Florindez as he explains his work. "Life never stops developing through time and space. I was inspired by a symbol on a textile piece from the Chavin culture. It was the abstraction of a serpent coiled into a spiral with a central point of origin and infinite continuity." Florindez starts sculpting the piece with a steel base adding cotton textures in black featuring a soft burgundy light.

Since the piece hangs from the steel frame, it can be placed in any direction, as desired.

Titled "Evolution" in Spanish.

A three-dimensional turtle strolls across the sand in this decorative plate. Handcrafted by Chorotega pottery artisan Ilsa Chavarría of the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, the round decorative plaque is the natural colour of the ceramic in the centre and bordered with a dark red curved line motif rimmed in bands of orange and black. Maguey fiber cord is threaded through the top of the plaque for easy display.

Chorotega pottery is completely handmade with traditional techniques passed down through the generations for 3,000 years, and one of the last surviving cultural elements of the Chorotega people indigenous to Costa Rica’s Guanacaste region and Nicoya Peninsula. Chorotega pottery is made from local clay mixed with a very fine freshwater sand. The artisans shape the clay on hand-operated pottery wheels and hand-polish the art piece to give it a smooth texture and luster. Designs are etched by hand and the pieces are painted with natural pigments made from pulverized local coloured rocks mixed with water, then fired in traditional wood-burning brick kilns. The result is a beautiful, earthen pottery unique to this region.

Costa Rican artisan Blanca Padilla designs and handcrafts this lovely trio of angels from fiber extracted from cabuya or fique, a succulent that looks similar to agave. The cabuya fiber is a beautiful creamy antique white, and the artisan works with its natural texture to from the features of this wall sculpture. Gold thread is woven with the cabuya to accent each angel's halo and the hem of her gown, and she carries a lovely bouquet of paper and natural dried flowers in red, yellow, and green. A star shoots over the trio.

The art and skill of creating handicrafts from cabuya or fique has been handed down through Blanca Padilla's family for generations. The artisan sources her material herself, growing and harvesting the cabuya, extracting the fiber, and preparing it for use in the handicrafts. Blanca Padilla hopes to help revitalize the cabuya craft industry with the success of her designs.

India’s Neelima Gupta captures the beauty of nature in her artwork using a rich mix of flourishing greenery, lively blooms, exotic peacocks and iconic paisley motifs. With finesse, Gupta molds marble powder into a malleable dough to craft a textured canvas that she adorns with an enchanting array of colours. Encased in a robust neem wooden frame, this mesmerizing creation promises to command attention and become the centrepiece of any environment.

First used hundreds of years ago to add dynamic texture and complexity to Hindu temples, Indian artists are perpetuating ancient styles in their present-day creations. Contemporary Indian artist Neelima Gupta interprets this tradition with her painting 'Bouquet of Flowers', which she painstakingly shapes over the course of a week by mixing marble powder to form a dough that she extrudes to give relief to the topographical imagery combining birds and flowers, over which she paints to bring nature to life. To highlight the scene's depth, Gupta surrounds the painting in a vertical neem wood frame.