Charlotte Farmer

Ships in bottles and snow globes, the magical illustrated world of Charlotte Farmer.

Jane Birchley

Today I am returning to my old love, Automata. I have found a few examples of works by Jane Birchley, I wish I could find more. Jane is represented by Mid-Cornwall Galleries, having studied fine art at Chelsey Jane started making automata as a way of combining motherhood and work. Jane's work uses reclaimed wood and it reflects her love of her coastal home, gardening and food.

Ingebjorg Smith

Winter birdscapes by Scottish artist Ingeborg Smith the nights are drawing in here, but the bright crisp days of winter have their bonuses and Ingebjorg captures this magic perfectly in her paintings.

Rafa Macarron

Rafa Macarron's images are strange and random, I am sure he employs surrealist techniques for his creative inspiration, techniques that I often employ to re-engage students imagination. Rafa was a professional cyclist and is a self taught artist from a family devoted to art. In 2006 he committed himself to a career as an artist. In the last five years he has had numerous individual and collaborative exhibitions, I am looking forward to his future works.

Fumiko Amano

'For the past fifteen years I have been incorporating poetry, architecture, Japanese comics, dreams, sounds and textiles into my sonic landscapes. Every city is filled with sounds that combine to form a sonic landscape. I turn these sounds into colour.' Fumiko Amano It is noisy colour, vibrant and joyous and I like it a lot.

Mary Sumner

Mary Sumner is another painter, like Dawn Stacey, who's work has traces of her former work with textiles. Her paintings are a storytellers view of the English countryside retelling encounters of Mary's daily walks and encounters with wildlife.

Dawn Stacey

I have had a wonderful weekend in Brighton, met lovely people and saw the work of many of my favourite artists. Including the work of Dawn Stacey whom I have featured before. Dawn's works are rich jewel like paintings in which you can see her former interest in textiles.

Brighton

The art room plant is visiting Brighton this weekend, with a trip to the art fair and a chance to meet Oswald Flump I can't wait. Have a fantastic weekend. The photograph is part of Heather Buckley's series of pictures from Brighton Pride 2011.

Yuki Nishio

And now I want a window littered with tiny trapeze artists . . . more magic from Yuki Nishio of  Organsha

Organsha (Yuki Nishio)

I am lost, stuggling in a sea of Japanese websites to find a European name for the artist who makes these porcelain dolls. I don't even like dolls but I just love the crowds of characters that Yuki Nishio has made. Organsha

Noriko Tatsumi

Noriko Tatsumi makes sculptures from clay and balsa wood, I love this image unfortunately, despite searching, there is very little on the web apart from Noriko's own site which has tiny pictures of the rest of her portfolio.

Mathilde Roussel

Mathilde Roussel's Muse sculptures, made from paper and glue, explore the way we imperceptibly change every day as if we were changing skin like a snake. Our skins flake away and so unlike in Mathilde's sculpture we are not left with an outer casing that we have shed. Mathilde's sculptures are an interpretation of a skin used, a trace of passing time and a memory.

Yunmee Kyong

Yunmee Kyong is an illustrator who's works I have featured before but I wanted to share her surreal sculptural works made with paper mache.

Massimals

Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin created these Massimals studies in volume and form created in lots of different construction materials I really like the glowing etherial quality of the zip-tie one.

Nabil Nahas

Nabil Nahas's paintings are like organic growths of mold or lichen growing from the canvas in layers of acrylic mixed with pumice.

Fatima Mendonca

Fatima Mendoca is a Portuguese artist, who usually works on a large scale, often using oil pastels. Her drawings abound with energy, though they can be quite dark, they have eyes where you don't expect eyes to be.

The Circus . . . has come to town

At last it is all finished and ready to post tomorrow. Textiles are so under appreciated as an art form. I love to work in this media but it is a slow process, requiring incredible patients, there is no rush even when there is one and no short cuts.
Now it is time to relax and get ready for a new week and a new project.
This piece has been created for an exhibition called Tactile in Alloa, where visitors will be encouraged to touch the work. I wanted bunting not only for the colour, but also for that ragged prayer flag feeling. I am therefore hoping that the work will improve by being touched.

Paper cut shadow art

Here are some examples of the work made by my students this week, with cut outs and tracing paper windows, for creating shadows.

Jane Reiseger

It has been well over a year since I blogged Jane Reiseger's wonderful graphic work, I fall in love with it every time I see it. Jane lives and works in Australia and her work has been used for magazines, books, nursery walls and clothes to name a few.