Friday 30 April 2010

Tuesday 27 April 2010

wild indeed...

ica exhibition, until 2nd may: paintings, prints, poetry, film, music. the upper rooms show the breadth of his output. stay and watch the documentaries upstairs but to get the proper experience visit dirty water club and see billy perform with his band. see also his website particularly the paintings and beautiful woodcut prints (my favorite)



Monday 26 April 2010

scrawl

Friday 23 April 2010

squiggles



Thursday 22 April 2010

blush


Tuesday 20 April 2010

from outer space




more space theme posts to come soon as it is a bit of a favorite inspiration of mine.

Monday 12 April 2010

moore


i have just visited the henry moore exhibition at tate britain. this is mostley about his sculpture however the examples of his many drawings and primarily sketches are my favorite finds. these have great fluidity and an off beat use of colour and are as exciting as his 3D work. if you are a moore fan the perfect place to really see his work is at his former home where you can look around his studio and gardens. here they have beautiful examples of the textiles that moore designed in the 1940's for ascher ltd (see last two photos). very inspiring!


Friday 2 April 2010

long hot summer

last summer i spent some time printing shoes for nicholas kirkwood. here is the result, a beautiful metallic foil print on goat skin suede:

Thursday 1 April 2010

its all about devoré

i have been looking back on the printing i did last year. these are photos from the louise gray look book for a/w 2009. check out the beautiful devoré printing and hand painting on looks 13, 5, 7 and 11: