I took myself to explore a few of the artists' open houses as part of Dulwich Arts Festival. I love the pot luck and pick 'n' mix nature of tracing a route round a neighbourhood. In honesty, I my lucky dip approach didn't leave me as inspired this time as it has in the past, but I did enjoy the work of Eleanor Winter, an illustrator with a particular heritage focus, who has been recreating some of the stories around the Holy Island of Lindisfarne ...
Megan Dowsett is a creative consultant working in museums, galleries and the arts, an illustrator who is finding her voice through personal and local projects, and a parent to two young beings who can't help but influence her creative journey.
Through the name Norris and the Flamingo, she shares the sense of adventure that runs through all of life, wherever we are on our journey. A sense of imagination, of possibility and discovery, for children and adults alike.

28 May 2014
13 May 2014
Collage Friday



Above ... collage by Eleanor Salter-Thorn.

7 May 2014
Artist Textiles
My latest dose of inspiration was from the Artist Textiles Exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum. There's something quite amazing about seeing how artists whose styles are really quite famous and familiar adapted their work just slightly for the reproduction of domestic and fashionable textiles. Never a particular fan of Dali (well, theoretically yes, aesthetically no), I found some of his textiles were among my favourite for the bold intrigue of his patterns. This one in particular:
More predictably, I was mesmerised by the illustrative textile of the artists who worked for Piazza Prints - Saul Steinberg, who's work I've admired previously, and John Rombola, who I've never come across before. I'd happily have either of these guys decorate my nursery!
Above, Saul Steinberg's Paddington Station and below, John Rombola's Circus.
More predictably, I was mesmerised by the illustrative textile of the artists who worked for Piazza Prints - Saul Steinberg, who's work I've admired previously, and John Rombola, who I've never come across before. I'd happily have either of these guys decorate my nursery!
Above, Saul Steinberg's Paddington Station and below, John Rombola's Circus.
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