Valentine’s Day is coming, and for once I’m ready for it (retail-wise, that is)! I worked hard on my shop window over the weekend with a Valentine’s message for just about everyone out there: And if you want to share the same message of sweet non-threatening but heartfelt appreciation with your best friend, your boss, …
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You Make Me Smile
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Pinks in action
As promised in yesterday’s post, here are the work-in-process results of my pink-infused Making Friday. I’m making sticker wallpaper for my studio bathroom. And look! I’m even wearing pink. Sheesh… Happy weekend, everyone!
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Seeking on the Working Proof
I’ve been an admirer of the work put out by The Working Proof for so long, enjoying both the prints they sell, and the socially responsible angle of the business too, where a portion of each sale is donated to a charity of the artist’s choice. That’s why I’m particularly thrilled to have released a …
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Flower Fields
Maybe I shouldn’t point it out, as I don’t know if anyone’s actually noticed, but so far every single one of my fabrics so far has been printed in just a single colour. However, that’s all changed now, with my brand new design called Flower Fields. It’s got two (count them, TWO!) colours in each …
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Escape
It was quite some time ago that I made a papercut called Escape, now silkscreened in silvery ink onto acid-free paper in an edition of 45.
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Cut out & iron on
Had heaps of fun over the weekend, playing with my roll of heat-adhesive vinyl that’s been lying around the studio for about 6 years. It’s really easy to use – just cut it out and iron it on (a lot). First I made the flower cushion on the left, then used the bits I’d cut …
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Eep! abounding
There are little Eep! cutouts all over my studio right now. Some are garlanding the studio rafters – leftover decoration from my sale – and others are muddled in a box, waiting their turn to be added to the wrapping of orders sent out in the post from my online shops.
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Downward-facing Cat
Our cats are usually pretty elegant beasts, arranging themselves picturesquely in order for us to see them and go “ahhh”. But sometimes I catch them contorting themselves into shapes that would leave most yogis scratching their heads – all unlikely-directioned legs sticking out at ungainly angles. I made some sketches of Nanook in one of …
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Papercutting
I can’t tell you how excited I was to get this new publication from Chronicle Books. Papercutting: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft is an absolute treasure if you are at all interested in mad papercutting skillz. It’s filled with beautiful pics of work familiar to me, like that of Rob Ryan, Peter Callesen, Helen Musselwhite, Elsa …
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