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Small updates

Posted 18 March 20250 comments

In no particular order.

Artworks going into frames, a trip to Barcelona, a birthday cake, an angry cat in a sling, dead daffodils and pen squiggles.

  • Feelings

Jeans

Posted 12 March 20250 comments

I was genuinely upset today to read this article about how my favourite shape of jean is not cool.

Ankle exposing, slightly tapered jeans are my life blood, they soothe my poor traumatised inner teen - who did her best teening through the all that naughties body image bullshit.

You couldn't buy non-stretch jeans for a long time.

I cried in the Levis store.

Twice

They evoke all the best retro for me - I feel kind of like a land girl or Baby from Dirty Dancing or an old woman who is riding a bike with a big basket to the market in a French coastal town.

And I shall continue to wear them until I am very old.

So help me god.

To hell with the fashion police.

Next they'll be telling me my Dali mask is not cool and seductive.

  • Feelings

I'm still here

Posted 14 February 20250 comments

About five years ago The New Craftsmen asked me to make some videos about my work for their social media.

I made this.

I still think it's great.

They asked me to make something more befitting of a high end gallery.

Better Out Than In

Posted 7 February 20250 comments

I love my Better Out Than In collage, it reminds me of my darling grandmama. She was an artist with a filthy sense of humour and a subversive outlook - she lived a bohemian and wild existence in a clapboard house just outside Hemel Hempstead.

She channeled a lot of rage and life happenings into her art and when they came out crooked and angry looking she'd say -

better out than in.

And I just love that.

I take the message as an encouragement to express myself, not to hold things in. Some people might be good at holding things in - but for me I need to share, to express myself.

Feelings and farts.

After I made this very important, heartfelt artwork that speaks to my ancestry and personal heritage someone told me that it would be 'great hung in the downstairs loo' . . .

And I couldn't help but agree! I thought more people should be able to have this message on their wall so I made a very reasonably priced poster, it's in the shop, you should buy it.

It's got to be the most best downstairs loo artwork available on the market today, I very much approve of this angle and I think so too would my dear grandmama.

  • Things

Vessels

Posted 24 January 20250 comments

I'm excited to have my Vessels Print up in the shop

I made it as part of my exhibition at Alnmouth last year and I really liked it. I put it in the show and was really hoping it wouldn't sell. I told Jack and he tried to buy it for me, from my own show - what a cutie, what a wally.

I'm really happy with how the print's come out, it's captured the blue background that I love. It zings against so many of the wall colours in our house.

I've given up the idea of making perfectly styled shots with my work, please accept this genuine child's bedroom as a backdrop, look at the print against that green, so good.

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