Claire Sahara Lemp I

 

Delightful summer image by Claire Sahara Lemp

Jun Takabatake

'Dear Professor Whale' written by Megumi Iwasa, illustrated by Jun Takabatake, Published by Taiwan Oriental Press Co., Ltd. 2018 The illustrations mainly black and white with a few in colour are charming and funny.  

A young whale has heard about the great big enormous whale, who won gold for his spectacular spouting. That gets him hoping that there could be a new Olympics, with the sea full of whales again? The invitation is sent out.

Lori Rudolph I

 

Love this illustration by Canadian artist and designer Lori Rudolph.

Helen Webber II

 

'Working Wheels' a wordless book by Helen Webber published in 1967 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

Helen Webber I

 

'Summer Sun' by Helen Webber published 1965. Helen Webber is very hard to find anything out about as she as been superseded by modern Helen Webbers. Helen (1928-2019) was a mid century illustrator and designer who created many bright, graphic illustrated books. 

Colleen Thompson's Inchcolm Ark

Colleen Thompson, artist and jeweller created an event with help from Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network, on St Columbus Feast Day (9th June) where she invited people to participate in a group art event, they were instructed to wear pale colours. 

We boarded a ferry at South Queensferry and sailed to Inchcolm island one of the many islands in the Forth. Here we formed an ark, and performed a song and movements about the rising water and effects of global warming.

As sea levels rise and coastal communities around the Firth of Forth face increasing risks from flooding and extreme weather, we gathered in an act of collective care, creativity and defiance. Together, we enclosed the abbey within an ark of protection ~ a symbolic act of protection for a place of such cultural and ecological significance. ECCAN

Because of extremely stormy and changeable weather, we had to constantly take shelter in Inchcolm abby and so there were many renditions and versions of the performance in the amazing spaces that the abby offers, these will hopefully be compiled into a film. 

Jack Myles

‘I want to regain control/understanding of the self, The self (I believe based on Hume and Ego Theory) is defined by the stimulus it has received. We now live in an hauntological late-stage capitalist age of [mis]information- of massinformation-, Brain rotted and overloaded with stimulus. I seek to look back to the past and regain control/question the stimulus that’s been put upon me by sources such as authoritarian western education, by television/pop culture and by the internet/social media. Through this I hope to gain a better understanding of the self. ​

Through collage, staging/restaging, diorama and memes I hope to find a better understanding of a self that is unadulterated by outside messaging. By utilising the world building methods of science fiction and fantasy, my art involves a humorous reinterpretation of the world around me, to find or fabricate hidden narratives and messages. ​

This has recently involved a deconstruction of personal family encyclopaedias. An examination stemming from both an aesthetic appreciation; and a hope to question what as a child I perhaps could not. I was fascinated with these objects and their surreal presentation of the world, The choice to elect and stage a handful images to represent such broad categories as Africa, Fascism, Radiology or Jazz. The proximity of these disconnected and clearly selected categories inspired me to reinterpret the world as I had been led to believe it. ​

I have also been interested an analysis of our relationship to the screen and the echoes of past forms of stimulus found in them, the historic and the present. By crossing over past points of information from encyclopaedia and from television with that of memes and reels/doom scrolls.’ Jack Myles

I enjoyed Jacks enormous collages and his use of tiny magnifying screens as seen in the first and last images of this post.   

Stamp a story

Tomorrow '#Stampastory2026' starts, Monty Lee's (below) new challenge for which you make a stamp(s) and then use it (above) @ritazima_art (them) to create art and stories using prompts provided.  Already Monty's co-hosts have been working away to announce the challenge. 

The shape as illustrated by @sudden.strangeness is a wiggle.

It runs all week as illustrated by @marinahenina 

Above are the prompts by @mark_timmins77 

 There is a wonderful supportive team including @elena_tsaprounisillustration (above)

 and @zeke.draw (above) who will share different techniques and support.

and kind words (above) @zeynebihteryildiz 

and inspiration (above) @raczeszteranna and the whole creative community that always rises to the fun and excitement of Monty's challenges.