Just a quick note to say that I will have some of my new larger Paper Entomology pieces up for grabs at the London Affordable Arts Fair this weekend from the 22nd to the 24th October at Battersea Park. There will be a private view on Thursday night from 5.30 -9.30pm.
More info can be found here.
I have been asked to take part in a show called “10 x 10″ at Byard Art Gallery in Cambridge.
The show is comprised of 10 artists, exhibiting 10 two-dimensional artworks each, all of which measure 10 inches by 10 inches. It starts at 10am on the 10.10.2010 (see what they’ve done there, uh?).
I am really happy to have been asked to take part in this as it is the first time that I will be showing work at this venue and it looks like such a lovely gallery. The work I have submitted is all from my paper entomology series, but I have used this opportunity to try out a couple of new ideas, which has been great.
More info on the show can be found here.
Whoop-dee-doo!!
I will be exhibiting at the art fair in NEW YOIK later on this month from the 30th September until the 3rd October. Sadly I will not be able to go there to bask in the glory of it all, but I may be having a celebratory cwoffee or two at home during the proceedings…
More info on the show here.
I have been working on some bigger pieces for this event and I have worked out some new framing with the help of my lovely new framer 
Really pleased with the results!
This piece measures 90cm square – so it’s quite a bit bigger than any of the stuff I have done before…
(only had time to take a pic with my phone before everything was shipped off to The States!)
Fingers crossed they are a success across the pond!
Would it be bad to sell all my possessions and use the money to buy a laser cutter?
Here is an invitation that I designed for our friends Alex and Gareth. The initial brief was for something “folded into A6″ – which is a somewhat lacking in direction as far as briefs go – but you will see that I managed to completely ignore that and just got on with whatever I damn well liked!
Very fortunately for me, Ally and Gareth approved of the design and here we have it:
Most pleased with these as it was another chance to try out some more laser cutting and to do something a bit different. I really like the look of the cutting on the more rustic style recycled board. The inside of the invite has been printed onto a nice textured, recycled paper. Most of the info is printed and then just the names have been handwritten on afterwards, so that it gives the appearance of each invitation having been specifically handwritten for each recipient (cunning, uh?).
The other inserts have been printed on recycled paper made from waste banana skins left over from UK wildlife parks.
Seriously – what more could one want from a piece of recycled paper??
I am lucky enough to have had my work chosen to be in the third Paperworks exhibition being held at the Bury Art Gallery.
The show is on from 31 July – 6 November 2010.
Here are some pics from the show – such a beautiful space!
Click here to read my post about the last Paperworks show I took part in back in 2006
Just thought I’d post up these pics of a couple of new commissions I have done.
The first is for a lady who had specifically asked for something using browns and golds with an oak frame. Nice
The second was made in an original old Victorian entomology case. It has quite a different feel to it than the first one – but I reckon this one’s a winner too – hurray!
I’d like to do some more pieces in old entomology cases. The have such a nice feel to them and I really love the stained paper in the background. I picked this one up on ebay a while ago and haven’t been able to find any more since.
Any ideas on finding any more, anyone?
Got one of these through in the post the other day – whoop!
It’s an invite that I designed for my friends Clare and Andy’s wedding. V. pleased with these as it’s the first proper job that I’ve done using laser cutting – I cannot belieeeeeve how fine the detail is – how blummin’ marvellous!
The design is based on a pattern Clare really liked on a posh bottle of body lotion (whatevs floats your boat!) – I think it looks rather lovely on here…
Hmmm – I wonder how much laser cutters cost¿
I’ll take two, thanks!
A couple of years back, I had a job interview with a company called Meri Meri. They are an American company, but they have offices in Cheltenham, which is not so far from where I live in Bristol.
I can’t remember the name of the position that I applied for now, but I do remember that at the time, I was under-qualified for it and decided to just go for it anyway. As a result, I was completely out of my depth during the interview process and I remember finding it very tough going.
I left from the first interview with a big brief from Meredithe, the founder of the company. There was a lot to do and I specifically remember there being a part that required illustrations of gay reindeers(!)… It took me a good couple of weeks to get it all done, but I got there in the end and was satisfied that I had given it my best shot.
Unsurprisingly, I didn’t get the job – but even though I knew that would be the case, it didn’t stop me from feeling crushed with disappointment at the time. When I look back on it now though, it is with a very positive mind. It was a great experience and I had found the whole process really inspiring. It was particularly good to meet Meredithe. She is a fantastic business woman and had built the whole company herself from scratch. It would have been the wrong decision for me to have gone to work there and I am so happy now working for myself, doing my own thing.
Hurrah for Meredithe and for Meri Meri – but most of all hurrah for finding your own path and doing things that you love! ♥
Here are a couple of bits from the current Meri Meri catalogue that were made from the design work I did for the interview:
- YAY!
You can check out more Meri Meri goodies here.
Hurrah and Huzzah!
After a somewhat baby orientated few weeks, I am back to work-town this month with some of my paper entomology pieces being exhibited in the new Papercuts exhibition at the Rostra Gallery in Bath.
This is an excellent turn of events as Rostra is a lovely, lovely gallery and I am very pleased to be exhibiting with them.
…to make matters even more spectacular, I will be showing alongside a bevy of girly paper artists including the wonderous Helen Musselwhite (whom I worship and adore!).
Other artists that will be involved in the show are: Laura Williams, Rebecca Coles and Frea Buckler
Papercuts will be on display at Rostra from the 29th January to the 23rd Fabruary.
Oh my outrageously busy weekend…
It was the Totterdown Art Trail this weekend and as ever, it was blummin’ ace!
It was a real mission to get everything sorted this year with the little one here too, but having worked my socks off for the last couple of weeks, it all came together and I was really pleased with how my exhibition looked in the end. Jet proved to be entirely useless at helping me to get everything ready, but I think she did a good job of wooing all the punters during opening hours!
Here’s some lovely pics courtesy of the old ball and chain:
More details after the jump…
