Mary-Beth Quigley

Mary-Beth Quigley's degree show at DJCAD Dundee, features a life size giraffe called Geoff, and a menagerie of other creatures peering at you from unexpected places. 
Mary-Beth's work has evolved from a love of costume,installation and film. Scraps of fabric giving shape to childhood memories and evoking a time of joy and innocence.

Pigeon Post

My last (I think!) mail art for Paul Smith. 

This time I wanted to make a textile parcel, because when we were travelling around India over 20 years ago, we sent some parcels home and they were sewn into a calico wrap with wax seals and they looked magical. 

So I have made another pigeon this time in calico, I wanted to include some pigeon food, so I made pigeon eggs from rice paper and stuffed them with corn. I had to pack the pigeon with bubble wrap to try protect the eggs.

Flo Gordon

Flo Gordon has created a bright joyful plasticine dominated degree show at Duncan of Jordanstone College  of art and design.
I always love plasticine in art it is such a surreal art material and always seems playful and fun. You can see various other posts about plasticine here.

Malgorzata Lazarek II

Malgorzata Lazarek's paintings have a layering of outline and solid form creating a reality from the tangible and what could be the contents of your memory or imagination.

Robbie Bushe I

I was lucky enough to go to art college with Robbie Bushe in Edinburgh, though he was in another year group, and both Robbie and his work were fun of fun, humour and unique observation. This is a selection form those ECA days. When I posted the work of 山下由介 yesterday with its domestic observation and perspective it reminded me of these domestic scenes by Robbie with their aerial views and observations of  mundane life, spiced with anticipation and disappointment.

山下由介

Continuing the birds eye perspective with a wonderful painting by 山下由介.

Kenne Gregoire III

A final selection of the wonderful, birds eye still life compositions of Dutch painter and sculptor Kenne Gregoire.

Kenne Gregoire II

Kenne Gregoire still life with delicious rendering of fabric and pattern that you want to reach out and touch.

Kenne Gregoire I

Amazingly detailed and beautiful patterned still lives of interiors by Dutch artist Kenne Gregoire. Kenne Gregoire is a prolific artist who works as both a sculptor and painter, a modern Dutch master. These paintings are created by building up layer upon layer of paint and glaze to create wonderful rendering of texture and colour. 

Valeriane Leblond I

Love this Welsh Alphabet poster by Valeriane Leblond a French artist/illustrator now living with her young family in Wales, I love the treasure of life that she has illustrated and the lovely Welsh words.

Miroko Machiko III

Beautiful owls from Miroko Machiko, everything this illustrator touches is magical though.

Marjo Mommersteeg

Marjo Mommersteeg currently has an exhibition of painting and sculpture in Ingeborg until the 20th May, it looks wonderful so if you are anywhere near pop in and say hello. These images are of Marjo's rawer sculptures. Often Marjo's work is very brightly coloured, and in a surrealist tradition she draws out of the rough logs and drift wood, a magical world of her imagination.

Pigeon Post II

More pigeons made today, ready to fly to Paul Smith's new shop in London, Freya insisted we make Tufty a pigeon we met in Florence at Easter.

Ana Ventura

Very excited as my first weekend off from teaching this summer will be spent in Cambridge attending the Inside and Outside workshop of Ana Ventura.  This is not something I have been plotting for ever but a wonderful spontaneous decision late last night prompted by a message from Jane Cabrera, I can't wait to meet them both!