![]() ![]() Perhaps not unsurprisingly, the United States is the leader, with over twice the number of artists (31) over the next, the United Kingdom (15). Just for amusement, and nothing more really, it’s interesting to separate the artists as according to their country of origin. Horiuchi, Tatsuo (also known as Horrister) (A) This is not always so typically, people have just a passing interest, and move on to other interests. The letter 'A' after the name indicates that the artist is still active in the field up to the present day. In due course, I would like to add more biographical details, perhaps separately, below the main listing. An open invitation to the artists concerned by all means write a few lines, or more, on yourself and send me in your details. Crompton gives brief background details where known. Even so, frequently, the backgrounds details are left open-ended some people seem to delight in obscurity! Although I could at least try and pursue some of these people, I judge the time required better spent elsewhere. This is really a bare minimum listing, of name, birth and country. As ever, I am open to further suggestions for artists to be added to this listing. The listing below, of 121 artists, is indeed as accurate as is practical. The criteria are of at least one work of some degree of merit or at least as judged by common consent of worth or have otherwise some degree of prominence in the field, such as with book publications. Indeed, at times, it is an invidious task. However, there are adults, such as Otto van Eersel, who have just the one tessellation to their name, and been published! And indeed, adults who have books with next to no understanding of the issues! Who to include therefore is not as straightforward. An open question is to whether include schoolchild work Escher-like tessellation is popular in schools, and so many young people do Escher-like tessellation, although their work is largely without merit and so of little need for an ‘official’ listing here. ![]() This is not such a straightforward task as may otherwise be thought! People’s interest in tessellation varies, from people who have spent a lifetime in the field, to dilettantes, of just a brief interest in passing, sometimes of just a single instance as a 'one-hit wonder' (marked with an asterisk below), to hundreds, and on one occasion with over 1100 (by Yasukiyo Yoshida ) and everything in between. However, the question arises as to work deemed fit for inclusion. TESSELLATION ARTIST UPDATETo this end, I have now (2017) taken it upon myself to continue and update this work with a listing of my own, and of which, pleasingly, the number of artists is increasing, considerably so, and now numbering over 100 as of this writing. ![]() Negating Champagne ’s work, the matter has lain undisturbed for a good few years. Subsequently, in 2017, Francine Champagne began compiling her own listing. Latterly, Patrick Snels then continued with this in his own way, with a database of 60 artists building upon Crompton’s work, adding a few more instances of his own. As a result of this, and his own investigations, he produced a list of 54 people up to 2010, when his active interest ceased. Andrew Crompton, a practising tessellation artist, from as far back as 1984, wondered about this, and indeed, placed an advert, in Private Eye, a UK satirical magazine, asking for tessellation artists to come forward. Of interest is just how many people ‘out there’ are undertaking Escher-like tessellation art. ![]()
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