For more than a decade collaborators Nicola and Brendan have been working at the forefront of affordable, handcrafted, green art.  They work to blur the lines between craft and modern art, while limiting themselves to sustainable, organic and recycled materials.   Click here to read their Green Art Minifesto.  Read a New York Times profile of their work here.

Chosen as the Village Voice and New York Post’s 2007 and 2011 favorite holiday gifts and showcased at the New York American Folk Art Museum, their pieces combine antique recycled wood with silkscreens, steel, electronics and handmade papers and micro-photography.

Their pieces range from “reverse” silkscreens and hand torched “reclaimed word” magnets to solar lightboxes and clocks hewn from fallen Central Park poplar trees.

Nicola and Brendan sell only outside on the streets and in the parks of NYC, where they can animate what they make; craft narratives around their pieces to be carried back to people’s homes, people’s lives. Their art is buttressed by the history of their recycled materials; by the sparks of conversations with customers; by supporters returning week after week to talk, to share, and to carry home their work.

Nicola is a distinguished graduate of University of Michigan School of Art and Design. Brendan is epileptic, asthmatic, short, bald, born in Newfoundland, and has a checkered past.

newfoundland studio

Nicola and Brendan work from their studios in Brooklyn, CT and Newfoundland.

Contact Nicola and the Newfoundlander at: (nic)(and)(the)(newfie)@(gmail).(com)