Upcycled, one-of-a-kind clothing and small original art. Painted by hand, never mass produced.
Maximus Art is an art practice that turned into a wardrobe. I upcycle clothing using the waste paint left over from my own painting and printmaking — saving garments from landfills, and keeping paint out of pipes and water systems where it does real damage.
Everything here is made in the same room. The clothing is upcycled or hand-sewn from reclaimed fabric, painted and hand-printed with lino cuts that frequently include cats. The art is small, original, and one of a kind. Both sides of the practice feed each other, and neither one produces something that had to be made new.
See the Process
“Nothing gets bought new, and nothing usable gets thrown out. That is the whole rule.”
It starts with what is already here. Garments are sourced secondhand, and fabric too worn to wear gets cut down and hand-sewn into totes, panels and trousers. At the same time, the paint left on the palette at the end of a painting session gets scraped and jarred instead of rinsed away.
Then the two meet. Each garment is painted by hand with that saved paint, or block-printed with a lino cut carved in the studio. Every piece is finished one at a time, which is exactly why no two of them come out the same.
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Every garment starts life somewhere else. Shirts, sweatshirts and denim are sourced secondhand, and anything that cannot be worn as-is gets cut down and hand-sewn into something that can. Nothing here was made new to be sold.
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Paint left on the palette at the end of a session does not go down the drain and it does not go in the bin. It gets scraped, jarred and saved, and then it becomes the design on a garment. The color you are wearing is the color that was going to be thrown away.
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Each piece is painted or printed by hand, one at a time. There is no production run and no second identical version waiting in a warehouse. When a piece sells, that is the end of it.
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Everything is sized and cut to be worn by whoever wants it. Relaxed shapes, honest measurements, and no separate sections — pick the fit you like and wear it how you like.
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The clothing exists because the art practice does. Small mixed media pieces, original paintings, and hand-pulled limited edition lino cuts are all made in the same studio, from the same materials, by the same hands.
Originals, studies and limited edition lino cuts — made with the same paint and the same hands as the clothing. Small enough for a shelf, a desk, or the last empty spot on the wall.
Clothing is thrown away faster than it can break down, and the paint rinsed out of brushes ends up in pipes and water systems it was never meant to enter. This studio exists in the gap between those two problems — every garment here was already made, and every color on it was already mixed.
For people who want funky, one-of-a-kind clothes without adding to the pile.
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