Lola Bradbury Paukner

Lola Bradbury Paukner's illustrations for 'Inda and Agrius', her graduation book, with wonderful line work.

Jessica Bolevin II

 

My second post about Jessica's work and Jessica Bolevin's second graduate book 'The Perfect Stick', in her wonderful spacious style about a child finding the perfect stick, which is then thrown away by a teacher and then retrieved and inspires all of the children to find their perfect sticks.

Jessica Bolevin I

 

One of Jessica Bolevin's graduate books, the compelling 'Granny's Lost Her Marbles'. ECA degree show finishes on Friday. 

Abbas Akhavan

Everything is busy, I am swimming in a tide of degree shows having just visited London, so there is much to process and share. 

On the way to see a performance at The Globe which is quite magical! I popped into the Tate Modern and saw Abbas Akhavan's 'Study for a Monument', which is an ongoing body of work archiving the native plants of Mesopotania between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. the plants have been enlarged and sculpted in wax and then cast in bronze.

Violera Lópiz I

 

Everything about this story by Ana Cristina Herreros, illustrated magically by Violera Lópiz is just exceptionally beautiful, including the endpapers! I cannot recommend it enough, 'The Amazing and True Story of The Tooth Mouse Pérez' was published in 2023 by Enchanted Lion.

Laurie Lindow

 

I rarely feature ceramics here, I save examples I love on Pinterest, but I am going to make an exception with the work of Laurie Lindow, whose degree show is a testament to little everyday things that jigsaw seamlessly into our lives, virtually beyond consciousness and definitely under appreciated. 

A ceramic diary of her life, even manifesting, in a wee bottle of Proseco and a congratulations card for her show.