absolutely beautiful things
July 1, 2010
colour, I love it, it excites me, it pours out onto the paper when I paint and sketch, but can I live with it. My white room is now grey, a mid to dark grey, it looks stunning……………. will I add colour………….. who knows. Grey will make any colour I add really zing, canary yellow, fuschia pink and and orange, mouthwatering indeed
Tears, did this man make me cry or laugh?
June 3, 2010
I saw Taylor Mac last night at the Soho theatre, he was amazing, so colourful, full of passion and joy, and very surprising to me, he was so tender, vulnerable and showed great compassion for life. I was really touched by him in a way I had not at all expected…………. For all his clashingly vibrant dress and his sparkly bejewelled make up was a man that not only made me roll up with laughter but bought tears to my eyes with his honesty.
In his own words ” I believe the more personal risk I take in the work the more the audience will relate and see the whole of their humanity reflected back at them. So, through art, I try to be as masculine, feminine, ugly, beautiful, intelligent, base, chaotic, graceful, joyful, sorrowful, perfect and flawed as I am in real life” and Taylor you achieve all you set out to do and so good to share my evening with you.
My first piece of felt…………….
May 30, 2010
what an amazing day spent with my friends in deepest sussex. Ali is an artist, and today she passed onto us her amazing skills as a felt maker. Sitting together amongst a riot of colour, pinks and reds, blues and greens, sketch books, paintings, the tools of the trade and from the windows a view of the sussex downs, what inspiring surroundings. We chose our colours and with patient instruction slowly constructed our chosen designs, poured on hot sudsy water and rubbed and rolled the wool into submission, then like magic the fibres all “knit” together into one glowing piece of wool felt cloth. What was really great was sitting n a circle with my friends, rolling and rubbing in the soapy water and all chatting and laughing and sharing our stories, a magical day which I know will inspire some future work……….. Thanks so much Ali.
Please follow the link here to Ali’site www.feltgoodfeltfine.com
Identity
May 7, 2010
BRANDED – mixed media
created with pastels, waterccolour, pencils, glue, and layered digitally.
is this the one? I think it is
April 20, 2010
After much deliberation, I think I have chosen this image for my kitchen wall…………..
Its going to be 3.2m high x 3.8m wide, very large, but oh so magnificent. I don’t want to go for your stereotypical foody, flower image that kitchens usually suffer from, but something magical and I suppose a talking point. With white gloss kitchen and plenty of colourful ceramics on my open shelves I think I am going to love it.
Resting my brain
April 18, 2010
The weekend has been full, my head has been full, but now I am giving it a rest…………
I awoke on Saturday morning with a real sense excitement, like a “fizzing” feeling going on inside, and tingly, needing to create something. My mind seems to go into overdrive and images, colours, thoughts, past journeys, magazine clips, feelings I want to portray, all manner of ideas swirl around like an “eddy” in a stream. Its as if they get caught, I hold onto them for fear of them flowing away from me, but as they spin the ideas gather and the vortex gets bigger, I cannot express my ideas fast enough and as soon as they are on paper more and more are building……… its exhuasting and my head begins to feel engorged with heat and flickering images until I cant take anymore.
So I have stopped now, paper and perncils, illustrator and laptop are about to be put to bed and I am going to go to bed and rest my weary head. For tomorrow I am designing, huge spaces, so exciting.
The image is trying to portray how I feel when the brain is in abundant mode, creativity is pulsating and courses through my veins. (mixed media)
Quatro Nana
April 16, 2010
Nike de Saint Phalle
Good days, dark days, some ok days
April 9, 2010
Today has been all three combined, the sun is just going down after a beautiful spring day, a GOOD day. Designing, creating a bistro today was mixed with a real passion for expressing the feelings when first entering a room that makes one feel special, but in getting there I have been back to places that bought on my perfectionsism, a small little girl with no power, feeling helpless and reacting within my adult self. DARK day. It was she who felt helpless that left me with feelings of “must be in control” something I have been working on letting go. All is well most of them time, but when it comes to getting everything in order I can somethimes get very anal about everything and become too perfectionist, this stops the “flow” and i get so frustrated. Anyhow the days work is done, I am now at home, and getting ready to go out to cinema. Going to see the new Tilda Swinton film, a perfect start to the weekend. Any thoughts of perfectionism are now far from my mind.
The image is oil pastel sketch, scanned in and made into a pattern on illustrator. its called “Plaything”
Is this the last piece of the jigsaw?
April 7, 2010
THE ODD ONE OUT
oil pastel – mixed media
two sides of separation
March 28, 2010
skeletal mass
November 23, 2009
the wild masculine
October 28, 2009
Mmmm he stands proud, a jaguar draped across his shoulders. Its no surprise I felt the need to surround him by horses, they respresent Power, grace, beauty, strength, wildness and freedom. He represents the masculine energy in us all. The bronze statue ‘Orpheus’ by Astrid Zydower, is larger than life and stands in the grounds of Harewood House just outside Leeds, Yorkshire. Orpheus was the greatest musician and poet of Greek myth, whose songs could charm wild beasts and coax even rocks and trees into movement. His magnificence radiates from this image. I put together the image with sky recently taken in malta, the land of the divine feminine, there are so many temples to the goddess here, it compelled me to produce a “balancing” image
Thankyou Analu
August 30, 2009
you have always been my inspiration, originally uploaded by analu prestes.
This lady from Rio has been in inspiration to me, her cut paper work inspired me to get going with my own work at the end of 2008. However since then Analus’ work has moved in many and colourful directions, this piece made me smile so much that I wanted for myself. WIth Analu’s permission I have downloaded and printed it out and its destined to be framed and hung in my home.
Wibbly Wobbly – jelly makes a statement
August 29, 2009
Hated it as a child, in fact hated any desserts, my birthday parties were surreal savoury fantasies conjured up by my very talented grandmother. Today I have found a smidgeon of sweetness is desirable, especially the taste of chocolate, but the the texture of jelly is just something else…………………….. especially when made by Bompass and Parr, they have taken jelly making to another level !!
Bompas & Parr: About.
abundance in Guatamala
May 15, 2009
Guatamala, so far away from here in the uK, so colourful and full of abundance. My dear friend has been traveling around south america, I noticed these images on her travel blog and really felt drawn to post them on my pages.
