mama

I'm lovin' it.

Shadow Soup and Cockatoos

Greenflash on Brighton beach

bedroom

Skip Portraits

After a very successful Skipping session with Grace (small schwester) we came home laden with enough bread to feed an army, a sickeningly big pile of doughnuts, a glorious bunch of fresh lilies, and last but not least this A3 sketch book of THICK BROWN paper (which, as we all know is hard to come by).

From the recycling out the back of my flat, I uncovered these images, and then came this series... of skip portraits.

(To see the rest of the series, come to the Illustration Degree Show, 11th June 2011)

Lest I Forget

After The Argument

Please Sir, I want some more.

Ray Martin, our grandfather

Ray Taught Us To

Grow tomatoes

To love compost,

To eat grapes, including seeds

To eat apples, including the core,

To shoot watermelon pips

That fruit is even better with cream on it

To lick your plate at the conclusion of a meal

To drive a car

To back a trailer

To ride a billycart

That getting bogged every weekend is fun

To ride a horse

To kayak in white melt water

To kayak in rough surf

To jump into deep, muddy rivers

To skip stones on a lake

Blow up a bullant’s nest

To shoot snakes

To love dogs

To build a campfire

To whittle a toasting fork

To lose it completely when pitching a tent

To tell a good yarn

To enjoy a road trip with no stops for any reason

Play a gum leaf

To milk a cow

To milk a goat

To love a cold bath

To fast

To hate authority

To use a powertool

To conduct a choir

To laugh just because somebody hurts themselves

When in doubt, hoe in the Vitamin C

To rebel

To tease

To never give in.

(Aggie Dimitriou)

Sing In Me Muse And Through Me Tell The Story.

First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens, his wife and children will never welcome him home again, for they sit in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song.

Homer, The Odyssey

The days of Onions

Like mother like daughter: I possess an enduring compulsion to paint tailed onions.