The Saatchi Online Showdown

http://www.saatchionline.com/showdown/match/showdown/4/artist/49552/art/1021972
 Please vote for my entry entitled 'entropy'. The voting closes on February 23rd 2011 so there is still time.

Thank you in advance, if you don't vote I promise not to hold it against you but what have you got to lose?

Moleskine drawing for planned doll.

This is my drawing for my current work in progress. I bought a pattern from Ebay for premature babies staring from 12 weeks gestation right up to 28 weeks. i am making an old fashioned hand made sanitary towel complete with pins as a bed for the tiny little 'would have been' life. It is intended as a loving commemoration of every baby that couldn't fulfill his or her potential for whatever reason.

Moleskine Pages.

A couple more pages bringing me almost up to date. I intend to start a new doll project next so the Moleskines may slow down a bit. I could be writing this in ancient Sanskrit to see if anyone is reading these posts, haha!

An occasional Dose of Culture. Charlotte Salomon

Charlotte Salomon is an artist I admire greatly, on a personal as well as on an artistic level. Salomon was a young artist from a cultured family that had the misfortune of living in Hitler's Germany. For her own safety, Charlotte was sent to live with her grandparents in Nice, where she began her opus of 769 paintings that encapsulated her short life. Her detailed paintings told her tragic story with humour and wit, the detail becoming more frantic as the net tightened. She fell in love and married Alexander Nagler. When she was 5 months pregnant, the couple were taken to Auschwitz where they were executed.

Charlotte entitled her work; 'Life or Theatre. a Singspiel'. She entrusted the work to a family friend asking him to safeguard it as 'it was her life'. Music was an integral part of the work, as she threaded a soundtrack into it's fabric that included Nazi marching songs, Schubert's Lieder and Mozart.

There have been several major exhibitions of Salomon's work, and a book is also available, yet she remains virtually unknown. The main reason for this is that none of her work is available on the open market.

There is a lot of information about Charlotte on the Internet and I urge you to read more about her if her work moves you. Any comments on my posts would be appreciated; opinions, questions or just observations would all be welcome.

Slideshow of my Moleskine pages

Moleskine pages: 2007-2009

I am posting some pages from my older Moleskines. my first one was started in 2003 while I was at the Royal College of art. I am struck by how different my work looks although that may not be apparent to everyone. The themes haven't changed much: life, death and in between!

A daily dose of culture, Andrea Dezsö; artistic wonder woman!

Andrea Dezsö is nothing short of a wonder woman! I came across her work while researching artist sketchbooks, what a lucky find! The special thing about Andrea is that she can turn her hand to any form of artistic expression and come up with something original, beautiful and awe inspiring.

 

Andrea Dezsö is a Romanian born artist (Transylvania if you want the exact location) of Hungarian extraction. Her Eastern European heritage undoubtedly feeds her richly narrative work and gives her the wonderful stories that act as a framework for her creative interpretation. Her grown up job is Assistant Professor of media Design at Parsons. But there is so much more to this creative dynamo. She works in ceramics, installation, animation, paper-cutting, embroidery and a lot more besides.

In this post I will focus on a series of embroideries that depict some of her mother’s sayings that will ring a bell with most people! They are beautifully executed, very funny and I love them all. There is plenty of information out there about Andrea and if you need inspiration I have no doubt her work will provide it. She has exhibited widely, has had books published but I still think she deserves to be more celebrated and her work more exposed. Andrea I salute you!