May 2010
I have been painting hard this spring and have had fun trying some different styles and techniques and painting on a smaller scale. A new project has emerged that crashes porno portraits, Cath Kidstone style florals and Benetton ads together. Millie Gibson from Da.is magazine commented on how her room is full of cute Cath Kidston style wallpaper and fabrics and yet if those walls could talk! Millie is studying journalism at Falmouth and came up to visit the studio and interview me for a new student magazine featuring ex Falmouth students.
Spacex Gallery in Exeter is currrently showing work by the wonderfully eccentric Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist and engineer who creates animals out of plastic tubes and makes them walk by storing wind power generated by plastic sails/wings in lemonade bottles. They live on beaches and are beautiful, funny, eerie and wonderful. There will be a creature live on Exmouth beach on the 25th to 27th June.