. . . must Away!

Sorry, I am away for two weeks, summer holidays at last. Have a good two weeks what ever you are doing.

Christine Destours

Wonderful delicate discs of colour, like looking through sunshine, here are some of the stunning works of French artist, illustrator Christine Destours.

Elise Mansot II

Second post of treasure by Elise Mansot.

Elise Mansot I

Elise Mansot is a wonderful French illustrator inspired by many artists, but very heavily inspired by the romantic work of Chagall.

Anne Crahay I

Anne Crahay makes these wonderful assemblages, collaged illustration, creating a whole world for your imagination to step into. Anne has some published works available in French.

Marianne C Wille

Marianne is playing with her food, she's allowed, she grew it, and a wonderful happy celebration of summer it is, to have these wonderful vegetable people running and jumping in front of your eyes. Marianne is an artist who works with yarn and textiles, her purses are a joy as is her blog.

Margaret Anne Bennett

Margaret Ann Bennett manages to produce classically beautiful compositions but with a modern graffiti edge, I would personally love to see her producing some fashion illustration too.

Ui Nakabayashi

Nakabayashi Ui's work is just beautiful, Paper x Paper a paper craft book published in 2005 was stunning, and here are some details from Wappen an embroidery craft book published this year. I wish I could find more about this artist/crafts person a blog or website would be a joy to find.

Update

Last year we hand reared a seagull chick, called Fleck. I had to take it to my parents house in Norfolk for release, as we have a very tame adult wild gull who is very territorial. I haven't seen Fleck since, here is a picture that my dad sent yesterday, very cool.

Louise Bird

Today I found the work of Louise Bird, and as ever, realised that it had been sitting right under my nose at 'Bird in the House', everything you could ever want to know is always on a friends blog. I love the way that Louise is making sense of the world the universe and all those big questions that blow your mind with crochet, I also love the way that strangely it makes sense.

"My practice investigates the relationship between the unimaginably huge and the invisibly small. researching the dissipating boundaries between art, science and religion, I have come to believe that art, science and religion are the same thing. Within each there is a language that describes the creativity of the universe." Louise Bird

Linda Florence

Now we have had some music it is time to dance, so here are some of the gorgeous 'sugar floors' of artist Linda Florence. Linda Florence is a printmaker, surface designer and installation artist.

Love . . .

It's not often that I post music (In fact have I ever?) but I love this Australian group, Seeker Lover Keeper and I adore their video's, especially this one. (Many Thanks)

Julia Douglas II

A beautiful project where a repair to an old bucket means that it becomes an object that is so beautiful, but also functional again. This project was the result of Julia's artist residence at the Timespan Museum and Art Centre in Helmsdale Sutherland 2010, the bucket was found in a ruined croft.

Julia Douglas

Julia Douglas is an artist who works across many mediums. I loved this cheese grater when I found it yesterday, and I was reminded of my previous post on this artist and her chandelier, made in collaboration with Claire Waddle and Rebecca Wilson, which also elevated utility household items into wonderful pieces of art.

Leo McDowell

Leo McDowell was bought up in northern England and his early paintings were moorland scenes around his home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. Having spent many years studying and teaching archaeology his work has many references and triggers from the iconography of ancient cultures.

Sophie McKay Knight

Sophie McKay Knight is a people watcher a collector of faces and characters, her work has evolved to combine screen printing and painting with drawn elements being the finishing touch. Sophie is interested in storytelling and is increasingly interested in incorporating text poems, lists and letters in her compositions.

Francis Boag

The wonderful bright pallet of Sottish painter Francis Boag, with zingingly colourful still lives and birthday cakes, great for a wet Scottish summer day and my son's birthday.

Petr Horacek I

A wonderful illustration by Petr Horacek who is going to be at the Edinburgh Book Festival, have a lovely relaxing weekend.

Eeva Jokinen

Stunning translucent rice grain ceramics from Finish ceramicist Eeva Jokinen.

Gwen Samuels

Gwen Samuels prints images onto transparencies and then stitches them by hand to create ghostly dresses, like negatives they are intimate and personal and somehow full of loss. " The images I choose are not presented in cinematic logic. they are fragments and details - with shape shifting, miniaturization and enlargement. This is my "reality" of memory with its reoccurring dreams and pieces of lost experiences.'' Gwen Samuels

Jupiter Artland.

Here are some images from the wonderful Jupiter Art Land. From top to bottom; Part of the massive 'Life Mounds' by Charles Jencks (great to be able to walk on these land form sculptures), 'a detail from Firmament' by Antony Gormley, 'Forest' by Jim Lambie and a weeping girl from Laura Fords 'Weeping Girls' Sculptures.