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Cow Christmas

Posted 22 November 20240 comments

I've completed my final artwork for the wonderful Garden Folk, their fourth seasonal event Cow Christmas will be complete with pantomime.

Purple Patch (where the Garden Folk live) is such a great space in Bristol, it's well worth a visit.

Just a quick update

Posted 21 November 20240 comments

I have this beautiful new website all set up and ready and yet I haven't told anyone about it.

Why is this?

Have I been intensely busy? Yes

Have I also been intensely lazy? Yes

You can decided which I'm being in this photo.

Inside Churches

Posted 13 November 20240 comments

Doing collage for all this time I've got pretty good at cutting up books but sometimes, out of the blue, I just don't manage.

This morning I was unexpectedly seduced by Inside Churches. I don't know why it pleases me quite so much to know the names for obscure cruciforms but it does, Inside Churches is a keeper for sure.

I want to share just a few of the best pages with you

First up crosses. Milrine, Fleuree, Barbee, Crenelee.

Please, choose your favourite and name your hipster coffee shop after it. Or indeed hipster baby.

For me: Bezant.

In case you're ever at a loss for conversation on your next date or whatever I think what's your favourite type of column? Is one of the most exciting questions a person can ask.

If your date answers Doric I'd say they're pretty chic, probably marriage material.

If they say Ionic I'd say, they're a fun, outgoing person. Prepare to party.

If they answer composite they are 100% an awful psychopath. Get out of there.

Artworks on wood

Posted 4 November 20240 comments

I very much subscribe to the idea that you can't teach children art.

I see myself as a studio technician when it comes to the kid's art. Recently I gave them free rein of all the offcuts of wood in the garage for painting on.

The results were so lovely, they're propped up all around the house.

A little stack of furniture

Posted 29 October 20240 comments

This Little Furniture Stack collage is now available as a print!

When I came to photograph it it sat perfectly in my house, stacks of things and domesticity everywhere.

Here it is on top of the piano with all the books and a piece of charmingly painted bark.

And in the studio with all the detritus including some of my sons influence - a bean bag and at the right a game that involves a target and pins

You can buy the print, framed or unframed, in the shop now.

Jo Waterhouse is a celebrated collage artist known internationally for her playful and anarchic style. About→