# Our artists | The Kanso Collective

> The artists behind The Kanso Collective’s silk scarves and wearable art: who they are and how they work.

Source: https://thekansocollective.com/artists

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Every piece we make starts with an artist’s own work. Meet the people behind it.

## Aubrey Kurlansky

An artist in Bangkok who designs silk scarves from his own drawings, photographs and digital art, after years of designing for luxury hotels around the world.

[Meet Aubrey Kurlansky](https://thekansocollective.com/aubrey-kurlansky/artist)[See the pieces](https://thekansocollective.com/aubrey-kurlansky)

![Aubrey Kurlansky’s pencil sketch of banana leaves](https://thekansocollective.com/aubrey-kurlansky/img/artist/banana-leaves-pencil-sketch.jpg)

## Tariq Nasre

Tariq Nasre draws dense, flowing worlds of figures, birds, fish and snakes in fine black ink, and sometimes sets them alight with colour. Born in Dongola, in Sudan’s Northern State, in 1964, he trained in colour and painting in Khartoum and spent decades as a cartoonist and illustrator for Sudanese newspapers, magazines and children’s books before his canvases took centre stage.

[Meet Tariq Nasre](https://thekansocollective.com/tariq-nasre)[See the pieces](https://thekansocollective.com/tariq-nasre#scarves)

![Tariq Nasre](https://thekansocollective.com/tariq-nasre/img/artist/portrait.jpg)

## Linda Edwards

Linda Edwards paints trees, birds and animals on grounds of 24ct gold leaf, in the spirit of medieval, Indo-Persian and early Renaissance art. A painting often begins with a poem or a page of a sketchbook and grows slowly, pattern by pattern, until the gold goes on and, in Linda’s words, “the whole painting comes to life”.

[Meet Linda Edwards](https://thekansocollective.com/linda-edwards)[See the pieces](https://thekansocollective.com/linda-edwards/air-and-gold#scarves)

![Tread Lightly](https://thekansocollective.com/linda-edwards/img/le-tread-lightly-scarf.jpg)

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