Posts Tagged ‘illustration’

Lost In The Forest

Monday, February 1st, 2010

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The little piece above has made its way into the shop at last. Said shop is looking sparse, perhaps a touch sad, a case of what you see is what you get. I am happily working away on some exciting projects to come, meditative stitching, thinking, evaluating, then hot headed, verging on the riotous. Funny but I remember feeling a little like this when I gave up smoking in my early thirties, oh and I loved to smoke, it was hard, I felt itchy as if a wolf were trying to break through my skin. Did I ever tell you how much I love Jacobean revenge tragedy with its malcontents, floridity, extremity, yup lycanthropy occasionally too. I don’t know but have a feeling that some new work is gelling, many and varied fragments are moving together, revisiting texts, pieces of poetry. This is a good space to be in right now.

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!

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