Thursday, July 09, 2009

don't forget...

sketch 9th july: I think she has forgotten me now...
pencil, gouache and acrylic on book page with found note.

Just a reminder for anyone local that I'll be at Clutter City Market at Norwich Arts Centre this Saturday from 10 til 4. I'll have a table of prints, sketches and drawings both framed and unframed. Don't forget to stop by, say 'hi' and buy something nice for yourself of course!

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

it's a shame...

sketch 8th july: i do not want this...
pencil and gouache on paperback book cover

I really like this piece I finished off this morning. It's kind of the same simple imagery but a little bit different at the same time. I quite often doodle arrows when I'm collaging (is this a word, my spell check says no!) different shapes and symbols together to form a sketch but have never found the right time to bring them in to any finished sketches. I always think about prison uniforms and 'the mark of shame' they symbolize and in many ways this piece is about discomfort and embarrassment. I'm hoping to make more use of the arrows in the coming weeks and get them firmly embedded into my regime...

Monday, July 06, 2009

heart shaped

sketch 3rd july: i'll show you mine if you show me yours...
pencil and gouache on book cover and end page with found nurse's notes and heart diagrams

Sometimes the simplest things are the best. I've had these nurse's notes knocking about for years before I even figured out that found scribbles and doodles was something I wanted to work with. I guess they've always just intrigued me.

I've often come across it in my piles of papers and thought about how old these notes are - I think from the 1930's - and that I've had it for at least the past 10 years - with good intentions of working over it only for the past couple. Sometimes you just have to wait for the right time for things to happen, sometimes that time can be a long while coming.

On Friday, as I finally got around to working on it, I was thinking about it's passage through time over the past 80 years or so and where it will go in the event that I sell it in the future. Eventually I came to the conclusion that I spend to much time thinking about the lives and history of inanimate objects and that maybe I should get a life!

Thursday, July 02, 2009

sudden sun!



It is hot! But I have mustered enough energy to make you quite an upbeat mix of some of my favorite tunes from the past month...you've got telekinesis, ruby suns, jonquil, juana molina, hauschka, kammerflimmer kollektief, lars horntveth and dani siciliano!

Enjoy!

Friday, June 26, 2009

Valerie Roybal...

well-being 4

The summer months are a busy time for me. There are so many birthdays on my calendar and I feel like I've spent so much time browsing for presents. Not that I'm complaining of course! It means I get to look at all of the lovely things I'd like to buy for myself. I'm not sure many of my friends or family members share my taste so I thought I'd share a few of my favorite artisans over the coming weeks...


wall mosaic 2

I am definitely in love with the work of Valerie Roybal and her shop my darling dinosaur on etsy. Actually, her work inspired this post and the desire to share some of my favorite peeps as I was busy ogling all of her beautiful wares...collages made from tiny detailed snippets of paper (top) - yes please!...mosaics made from salvaged pottery(above) - genius!...not to mention the simple wonder of her reconfigured paint by numbers. I want them all.

Thanks to all who have dropped by and left a comment of late! Enjoy your weekend!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

public appearance...


Just a little advanced warning to say I'll be at the next Clutter City market at Norwich Arts Centre on Saturday July 11th. I'm mainly going to be taking original drawings and sketches but there will be a small box of prints and other bits and bobs coming along too.

See you there!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

i can't think of a title for this post...

up in the air, somewhere...
pencil, watercolor pencil and gouache on hardback book cover.

I was sooo busy yesterday I totally forgot to post anything. I spent my day rather unexcitingly framing, framing and then framing. Thankfully it was rather an overcast day so I didn't mind too much but today is glorious so it's a day for pottering around the garden, lunch alfresco and then, well, I might finish off my framing and crack on with some work to my website. It can't all be fun and games in the sun, can it?

Loving music by Soft Circle (via dr kennedy jones)