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Larissa Wilson is the owner and sole creator behind ButternutSquash, a jewelry and home decor business that specializes in items made from recycled materials and found objects. "[My items] have a nostalgic and vintage feel," Wilson says, "but [they are made] for modern people." A graduate of Fort Hays State University with a BFA in painting, Wilson has worked as an artist for 12 years. And, inspired by the raw materials around her started Butternutsquash three years ago. click here to read the rest of Larissa Wilson's profile and learn more about ButternutSquash

the full post excerpt: "Landscape paintings are so ten years ago, yet artists today continue to create them in abundant supply. After all, there was a time (10 years ago) when art galleries sold nothing but landscapes. Those days are over. Buyers are more sophisticated now. They demand more, well beyond safe and mundane paintings of a quiet stream, a grouping of trees or a wispy field on a cool fall day. Buyers today want modern, abstract, surreal, out-of the-ordinary realism, engaging figurative work. They are drawn to and demand art full of emotion and intrigue – landscape paintings don’t even come close to fulfilling this need." Having painted 2 commissioned landscapes in the last couple of years, I think there will always be a market for it. And I'm not sure if pop-surrealism is on its way out or just now hitting the midwest, but I think that style can be a whole new take on landscapes and woodland creatures :). And really, landscapes are so not my thing, and i...