Elle Deco Spring Issue (page 24)

Have you bought a copy of Elle Deco South Africa's Spring Issue? 
Get it because its good. I am more than a bit in love with their features on Karen Suskin's Noordhoek house 
and textile designer Akira Minagawa's home near Tokyo.

And... turn to page 24 where there's a little bit of me! 
No, not The X-Factor bit (I know I'm pointing a little awkwardly in the picture) but Little Wonders - isn't that sweet? 
Thanks Elle Deco SA!


Read my interview here.

The illustration above is called 'formative books' - I painted tiny watercolour book covers from stories I loved in my teens.

paper city

                             

I'm trying out new media. Well, old media in new ways. Unfortunately this little paper city got squashed, but I'm working on a bigger, better one...

Good Heavens, Red.

Matthew produced a beautiful collection of Good Heavens reds while I was away. We had fun naming them: Philly, Roger, Queenstown and Roffey. They're listed on Etsy, have a look.
(If you are in South Africa and interested in buying, 
contact us directly: info@goodheavens.co.za)

carb love

(more on this a little later)

friday in this city

hi

hello

silver birch

window view

Toe socks

Design and the City 2011 at Helsinki Summer School was special!

I have plenty to share from my month in Finland. 

Here's a quick sketch in the meantime. 

Liisa Jokinen founder of Hel-Looks chatted to us about her street style finds and sent our class on a mission to find our own 'image of Helsinki'. To me this describes the height of exotic: white havaianas on black and white toe socks. I spotted this on a lady at the second last bus stop of my daily Helsinki commute to the university.

moi moi

My last evening in Finland, drawing and addressing postcards while the sun sets on Suomenlinna island. 

It's been so very very good.

Green on Green

Green is a name for many colours. This is why I love it.

a good colour

sunnuntai

Helsinki is bringing it. It's stretching my mind, keeping me awake late, affirming design, making me feel gentle - if you watched the Temple Grandin biopic you'll know what i mean by feeling gentle. So...yes. Finland is yes and Helsinki is yes. So far so good.

suomi

Finland is yes

gusty thursday

'Gusty Thursday' is available as an editioned archival print (on heavy weight fine art paper) at Salon 91 's Winter Wonderland show - which ends this Saturday afternoon. That means two (and a bit) more days left to browse some lovely wintry prints by lots of talented illustrators. Details here 

the safe spaces campaign

The Freeworld Design Centre is hosting a Women's Day celebration on the 4th of August in aid of the Safe Spaces campaign where 45 balls by South African creatives will be auctioned for this charity. Details here! And plentiful amazing creations to browse and get ready to bid on here.

I made the illustrations on my "safe = free" ball using electrical tape and my trusty babanangu-bird-scissors.

(The FDC did a very sweet post on me in June - thanks so much Amy!)

yellow landscape

Postcard: the Gamsberg seen from the Namib

Photo credit: H. Theiss

Upper orange

I walked all the way up Upper Orange street last week on my way to the Finnish embassy, found a park called the Homestead, sat in the sun under a fruit tree and stuffed these in my purse.

Winter Wonderland

Last night's opening for the Winter Wonderland show was packed! Loads of pretty stuff. More details here and here.

(I cut these asymmetrical 'snowflakes' individually from 1cm label stickers - editioned prints are available through Salon 91 gallery )

Here's a quick sketch I made for the window display. It makes me want to re-watch Fargo for some reason...

(The weather's not playing along - its HOT in my studio today)

one minute seal

First Editions

You have two more days to see * this show *