Archive for the ‘design’ Category

Beyond The Tree Line

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Hello Polar Bear! I am working on a top secret project and immersing myself in the Arctic, really a boundless source of inspiration. I have been studying A Naturalist’s Guide to the Arctic written by the ecologist, E.C. Pielou, so that my fanciful imaginings and magical projections about the polar region are tempered with a dash of natural history. I have a head full of patterned ground, tundra polygons and ponds, not to mention the plants, birds, mammals, fish and insects.

Can it really be a year since I stitched my first Polar Fish Boy? I wonder where my armchair expedition will take me this time!

Continuing the polar theme I received two wonderful mini books for Christmas by the illustrator Jackie Bos, pop over to Jackie’s Etsy shop and marvel at I Heart The Arctic .

I like the collage above by Lizzy Janssen too, it is named Land of Shine.

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Of course I couldn’t get away without including some work by Diane of Hibou Caillou Chou! Diane’s work is influenced by Inuit culture and the Great North, poetic lines indeed.

The Polar Bear Plate by One Blackbird caught my imagination as well.

Happy New Year everyone!

Hinshelwood de Borman

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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I received an email recently about a very exciting new ‘pop up’ shop and gallery organized by textile designers Hinshelwood de Borman. The event will showcase textiles, homeware, antiques, taxidermy, artists books, paintings, prints and more from emerging and established British artists, illustrators and designers. The line up of artists involved is impressive to say the least, I wish I could attend, I may have to send some spies on my behalf. If you are in London this is an event that shouldn’t be missed. Check the flier below for more information. Get thee gone kittens!

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Caitlin Hinshelwood

Rose de Borman

Hannah Waldron

Jazmine Miles Long

Cornelia O Donovan

Alice Stevenson

Susie Cowie

My apologies that things have been so quiet here for a while, I have been working on my submissions for the embroidery show at Renegade Handmade next month. You can see one of my embroidered collages below. I need to get some proper images up soon, that poor deer needs her legs back, how embarrassing!

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The Print, The Bag!

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

This print and this bag send me into a rapturous delirium of acquisitiveness, oh yes pleeease imaginary secret benefactor!

In Russia screen print from Lizzy Stewart’s shop, About Today.
Tote from Dazzling Lanna.

Hopefully a Plush You report later!
XXX