Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Tuesday, 19 November 2024

Monday, 18 November 2024

Françoise Delot-Rolando III

 


Just wanted to share this stairwell photo with the beautiful garment paintings of Françoise Delot-Rolando. Have a good week.

Saturday, 16 November 2024

Tove Jansson III



I have become uniformed, the information highway of the internet becomes more of a swamp daily and I am turning off apps, turning off news, turning off!!!! 
My whole life I have worked, demonstrated and fought for good and right in the world but currently I feel cheated and beaten. Fairness and democracy a facade, like the curtain in 'The Wizard of Oz '. Things are done by governments of countries in the name of their citizens, that the majority of the people are vehemently against. Nothing is being done for the good of the planet, it's animals, ecosystems and of course its people. 
War war war . . . the heat turns up!

My daughter informs me that 'The Hobbit' has been banned in Trump's America, or the current Republican states, and ponders the insanity of this as she watches Margaret Attwood's 'Handmaids Tale' another banned book! This one requires no pondering as to why the incoming administration would wish it banned. 

Anyway I was reminded of the insanely, wonderful illustrations of Tove Jansson for Tolkien's classic and thought today a good time to share them.









Friday, 15 November 2024

Susan Wilder


Above; 'As The Crow Flies' by printmaker Susan Wilder , below; 'Double or Nothin'



Apologies for my absence I have been ill.

Thursday, 7 November 2024

María Berrío

So the world has turned a few times since I was here and the humans have made more terrible decisions. With this in mind I want to share the work of  María Berrío, born in Colombia in1982 and now a visual artist working in Brooklyn, New York. María creates large-scale collage works crafted from layers of collaged Japanese paper with painted details, works that reflect on cross-cultural connections and global migration seen through the prism of her own culture and story as an emigre, and visualises women's narratives of displacement.












Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Eric Carle II

 


'The Very Lonely Firefly' by Eric Carle is today's feature because of the gloriously colourful and energetic firework illustration below and it is bonfire night.




Saturday, 2 November 2024

Oliver St Gabriel II


 Oliver St Gariel has been making some creatures for Octo-grr, This year he has had them playing musical instruments, however this wee group, from last year are just going on an adventure! I love this illustration. 

Friday, 1 November 2024

Ken Smiths

 


'May I have some Cherries' by Ken Smiths made me think of harvest time and windfalls. 

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Robert Macfarlane and Nick Hayes


'Riversong', a "broadside ballad" which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival. 'Riversong' is free to print, share, set & sing, speak aloud on a riverbank, post on walls or windows, adapt, translate, perform, turn into a placard on a protest, colour in, share with schools, friends, community choirs, campaign groups...ANYTHING you want.'Robert Macfarlane. 

The illustrated frame is by Nick Hayes an artist whose work is driven by a love of nature and a strong compulsion to fight for what is right. 

Monday, 28 October 2024

Renate Habinger

 


I adore the almost silhouette work of Austrian illustrator Renate Habinger, but it is very difficult to find her work online, this is a cover from Gaggalagu written by Michael Stavaric, illustrated by Renate,  published in 2011. It reminds me of sashiko or borra work with its white and red writing over the animals like stitches.