Tamae Mizukami II

Last time I featured the work of  Japanese illustrator Tamae Mizukami it was to celebrate the beauty of winter, today it is to celebrate the golden light of summer.

Piu Sudo II

Love this bright, summer yellow, illustration that Piu Sudo released this morning to herald the release of a new book. This is a screenprinted illustration of a nostalgic nursery rhyme.

Ajar Salimi II

Today I am off to photograph a wedding, a big responsibility to capture such important memories and fix them in tears and laughter of a lifetime. To celebrate, a wonderful day, this illustration by Ajar Salimi.

Annemette Lichtenberg I

A riot of line, colour and ideas, these are some examples of the work of Danish artist Annemette Lichtenberg. Annemette's works have a surreal abstraction, and are almost dream like in their boundless mix of elements from daily life.

Ruio Hira

Ruio Hira's beautiful collaged bird illustrations and broaches.

Ajar Salimi I

I found wonderful works by Iranian artist Ajar Salimi at the weekend and gathered it to share with you. These two drawings reminded me of the wonderful Ursonate by Lisa Paclet which I originally saw at Kickcan and Conkers.

Inma Lorente II

The joy of the circus by Inma Lorente 

Inma Lorente I

Inma Lorente is a Spanish illustrator who initially studied graphic design and after two years working in a marketing department she choose to further her studies in Barcelona this time specialising in illustration. Now Inma works across the two genres and has won many awards internationally. These illustrations were for the album Animalets by the Ovidi twins.

Inga Dalrymple

Inga Dalrymple's sketchbooks are so loose and look like she is having great fun layering paint and colour. Inga is an artist who lives outside Sydney "my paintings are the older wiser adults . . . my drawings and sketchbooks like wild kids." Inga 

Daisy King

Bottling dreams, memories and fleeting moments in life, this is part of Daisy King's exhibition last week, part of the free range collective of degree shows displayed at the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane in London. 
It was an overwhelming exhibition with so much to see you really need to stay for a few days and just see a couple of rooms everyday, but a wonderful way to see many degree shows in one location. 
This week is art and design week.

Auguste Forestier

Auguste Forestier was committed to a psychiatric hospital aged 27 having caused a train derailment. Auguste draw and sculpted in his spare time. He carved bones from the kitchen and pieces of salvaged wood mixing these with scraps of fabric and leather to make animals and figures.

Ilija Bašičević Bosilj III

Ilija Bašičević Bosilj's wonderful little assembled carved birds complimenting his extensive paintings of birds which you can see in previous posts. 

Carlo Giovani

These works are quite old and Carlo Giovani has moved very much into working with paper. He is highly commended and award winning as a graphic designer, animator and illustrator, but these works are magical and wonderful, capturing exactly in vegetable form the characters of the animals they represent.

Being a canvas for Motley Collective

Being a canvas is not easy, but it is fun being part of the experimental work of two great creatives Annalies Maria Phyllis and Sabrina Shirazi. 
Acrylic paint does not enhance the youthfulness of skin, stretching, splitting and creating an effect just like premature aging.
The possibilities thrown up by experimentation provided so many opportunities and developments to explore that I cannot wait, to see what the Motley Collective do next.