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Matthew Phelan & His Girl Friend
I was born in Dublin but spent the majority of my life growing up in Liverpool, England. However, I never started my artistic journey until my move to Sri Lanka where I lived for a year. A new country, no friends, I slowly became a recluse. My highlights of my day were waiting till 6 am to play
In the times of the day I would wait to play, I found myself just walking around on the game trying to find a way to entertain myself. I found with all the different
Fast forward a year and now I was Living in Newfoundland, Canada. Whilst walking around a dollar store with my mum my eyes were drawn to this little packed. It was the beads! Immediately bought every packet out of the store; costing $15 and thus began my journey of beading at age 16.
Ironing my first piece didn't really go to plan.
It was over melted,
I learned a lot for this and it set me up for 4 years of beading.
Matthew First piece
At age 17 I moved back to Ireland. This is where things really began to take off for me. I started to see a real change in my quality with my beading and in my ironing. I now had more
Made with
My next big step in bead art was becoming connected with Artkal. I have now been with them for over a year and honestly couldn't be happier. Their colour selection was great and really allowed my work to progress into the next stage. I got wind of an art competition running in Ireland and set my sights on it. It would entail you having an art piece in a gallery and an international tour for 2 years. I took my chances and with my new found beads I went for it. 92 people entered the competition and
I wanted my piece to stand out and be the best piece I have ever built. My biggest piece before this was 6600 beads but this one was looking at over 20,000 beads. I got as many
--Matthew made with Artkal Beads
My biggest inspiration is probably my father, Andrew. He
My next goal is conquering the 3D beaded world and with this in mind, I have started to learn several 3D packages to aid me in my new original creations. I am also putting more time into showing people how to make 3D stuff whilst I do it too so I have created a YouTube channel that I will be filling with beading tutorials. You haven't seen the last of me and my best is only to come!
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