28. British artist Jane Perkins creates beautiful
works of art using everyday objects like
marbles, toys or buttons picked up from
recycling centers, second-hand shops and
junkyards.
Jane Perkins worked as a nurse for 17 years, in
a London hospital, before she decided to
explore her artistic talents and got a degree in
textiles in 2006. For her graduation thesis the
artist chose a topic that would later be
associated with her name - “Recycled
Materials in Art and Design”. She began her
successful career by creating stylish brooches
mad with discarded jewelry, coins, sea shells
and other found junk, but soon moved on to
other more complex and impressive works.