The whole world has endured a shared experience of loss and fear during the Pandemic, and now we share the hope for a time of renewal, optimism, growth and change. Today we launch four Risograph prints, expressing this hope in a graphic rendering of the way we mark time, the beauty of small shifts, and …
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New Prints : Freedom, Change, Progress & Shift
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New: Shard print
Sometimes I’m a very slow designer. I’ve realised this as I go through a very high-energy week, in which we’re launching a brand new print called Shard at Decorex Cape Town. While it is a visually energetic with Op-Art vibes, the idea for Shard came about during those slow, peculiar weeks and months when the …
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PRESS : Tiles in House & Leisure
We’re thrilled to have a three-page article in House & Leisure magazine’s BUILD issue, focussing on our new collection of tile designs.
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MAKING FRIDAY : Tile design inspiration
A short video showing the origin of the Daisy Day tile design.
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Light + Shade : An exhibition
On Wednesday 1 September, ceramicist Sarah Walters and I launch our Light + Shade exhibition at the Sarah Walters Gallery at 7 Wheelan Street, Newlands Village. We’ve been carrying Sarah’s beautiful mugs in our shop for a while now, but after a conversation we had about how hard it is to find beautiful lamp bases, …
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Start a pattern habit
My New Year’s resolution was to get in the groove of a daily pattern habit. The rule is that every morning before I start work, I fill a page of my pattern journal with some kind of pattern. I spend 15-20 minutes using the grid lines in my notebook to work through what a simple motif can do. Then, …
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Start by cutting paper.
After recently posting about the papercut of a KolKol bush that I made in the Norval Sculpture garden (read about it here), it occurred to me that not everyone knows that a lot of Skinny laMinx designs started with cut paper. Some of them – like the Pincushion Protea that I cut in my studio …
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Making Friday: Dots agains doomscrolling
I really don’t like the fact that I find myself drawn towards my phone all the time, but I think it’s the crazy times we live in. There’s the constant temptation to check out what new disaster has befallen the world… or maybe a puppy has made best friends with a duck! To help me …
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Making Friday: Papercutting at the Norval
So many Skinny laMinx designs are based on papercuts. Pincushion, Flowerfields, Rough Cuts, Stig – they all started with a sketch, some paper and a sharp little knife. I haven’t been doing much paper cutting lately though, and I really miss it, so when I was invited to spend Garden Day 2020 in the Sculpture …
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