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Juliana Capes

May 30, 2015, 11:44 am
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I managed to get through to Edinburgh and catch the last day of The Hidden Door's Festival with my daughter and catch a little bit more of the Edinburgh College of Art Degree show which is on until Sunday the 7th of June.

In the warren of disused buildings at 'Hidden Door' there were many delights waiting to be discovered and some I hope to share with you.'Loveletters' is a joyous and colourful installation by Juliana Capes at The Hidden Door Festival in Edinburgh.
 “Unrequited love letters. A flock of hand made watercolour dyed paper aeroplanes, appearing weightless and drifting, as if caught in flight. Their stillness resembling a moment of perfect sunset. Romance. A sculpture characterised by pattern and colour rather than mass or heaviness – so much so it’s often been described as painting in space.” Juliana Capes
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Deborah Pow I

May 30, 2015, 10:00 pm
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This is Deborah Pow's lovely little book which matches cheese types to people's characters.

"My 'there's a cheese for everyone' book was a wee project I did this year along side my 'the book of pears'. I did it just for a bit of fun! The zine is filled with lots of cheese puns which I drew and painted with water colour. I don't even remember why I decided I wanted to do it, I think I began to realise how many cheese and pear puns there really was and thought it'd be fun to illustrate and share with everyone else rather than giggling away on my own . . . I love a good pun!"Deborah Pow

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Hebe Robinson

May 31, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Hebe Robinson  has created a very haunting series of works called echos where she has grafted historic photographs onto her own. placing people back into the landscapes from which they were moved in the late 1940's early 1950's. I found these images deeply moving, they reminded me of the clearences in Scotland and other such enforced, socially constructed migrations of people.
"Around 1950, families in small and remote fishing villages in Lofoten, Northern Norway, were offered a lump sum from the government to leave their homes and relocate at more central places. They also committed to never return and resettle. This was part of the government plan to centralise and modernise the nation after the second world war. Communities that had survived for centuries in a hostile environment on the boarder o between the steep mountains and rough sea, totally isolated during the winter months, collectively decided to leave. Neighbours and friends through the generations packed all their belongings and left their homes and each other. The villages were abandoned within months. Due to a shortage of building material, they dismantled their houses and brought their homes with them as well, leaving only the foundations.The traditional self sufficient way of life were lost and a part of the coastal culture with it. In this photographic project. I am bringing families and their lives back to the villages they once lived. Historic photographs from these places are returned to where they were taken, linking past and present together. The project is about the passing of time, history, destiny, maturity and changes in society. Pictures and their histories are from the descendants of those people in the pictures."Hebe Robinson 
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Oana Stanciu

June 1, 2015, 10:00 pm
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It is always good to see something defying gravity and in this case it is Oana Stanciu whose work was exhibited at the wonderful Hidden Door festival in Edinburgh last week. A festival that made you feel like a child in a surreal game of hide and seek. 
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Jessica Wheeler I

June 2, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Jessica Wheeler had a wonderful bathroom as her degree show presentation with little ceramic figures dipping their toes in the glazed water. 
"I have focused on the theme of body image; through this I have celebrated people of all shapes in the shower curtain Naked Parade. I have also been developing a swimwear range  . . . the aim of all my work is to be aesthetically satisfying from a distance, and to niggle a giggle under closer inspection." Jessica Wheeler

The frequent ceramic renderings by illustrators seems to me to be the manifestation of a strong desire to see their creations leap off the page from the two dimensional world of dreams into three dimensional reality.
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Jack Fletcher

June 3, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Another example of an illustrator creating their two dimensional characters in three dimensions is Jack Fletcher's wonderful Old Hunters Jacket and Scout Bags, part of  illustration at ECA degree show.
Jack's work is mainly limited colour screen printed illustrations.
"What I enjoy doing the most is building a world through my illustration and allowing other people to explore it" Jack Fletcher

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There are ways and means . . .

June 4, 2015, 10:00 pm
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What can you do when a friend is very ill in hospital and you cannot take flowers?
Flowers have been banned in British hospitals for some time now and it is difficult to know what to take when you are visiting or even to send when you aren't able to visit.

One of my students had asked a week or so ago if, just for fun, we could do some of the aerial photos like those of Jan Van Holleben (see below).



In trying to solve the problem of how to send  flowers, this was an ideal solution, draw the flowers and put ourselves amongst them to send our love.




We worked hard, laughed lots and send our love and flowers to Agata  . . . Get well soon XXX
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Lauren McNab

June 5, 2015, 10:00 pm
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I loved the hot pinks and contrasting greens of Lauren McNab's Botanical garden screenprints inspired by
Glasgow and Dundee's botanical gardens.
A major theme in illustration this year has been foliage and jungles, at the illustrators exhibition at Bologna, in recent book publications and now the degree shows.
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Gabby Malpas

June 7, 2015, 12:02 am
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Gabby Malpas is a New Zealander who lives in Australia and her work sings with the energy and colour of this country. Gabby paints mainly botanicals, insects, birds and ceramics using gouache on Arches paper .


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Alice Pattullo

June 7, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Alice Pattullo's new ABC menagerie is a wonderful bright screen printed series that Alice has been developing letter by letter for over a year. They remind me of old matchbox covers or classic 1950's encyclopedia illustrations.
Alice is the daughter of Mandy Pattullo a textile artist whose work I greatly admire.
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Helena Covell

June 8, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Helena Covell has just graduated in illustration from ECA, here are some examples of her screen prints from her book 'Jumble Wood' at the degree show last week.
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Lotte Fisher

June 9, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Lotte Fisher's 'Soupstate Hill' installation from DCA degree show, a world in a tiny room complete with landscape, architecture, wild beasts, tame beasts and relatives a tiny fragment from another world . . .

"Tenzing is a world of strange creatures, structures and landscapes which is being slowly discovered by my alter ego, the pioneering explorer, Freeman MackInesker. The world has it’s own language and power structures and is almost as incompressible to Freeman as it is to us.Tenzing is brought to life through sculptural structures and creatures along with paintings, drawings and self-made publications.Only a very small area of Tenzing has been explored thus far and I intend for Freeman MacInesker to continue on his journey, discovering new lands for many years to come."Lotte Fisher

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Gerad Chung I

June 10, 2015, 10:00 pm
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"The wolf to me is a symbol of untamable wilderness, and it is a symbol of our inability to co-exist with predators.On the one hand this piece represents the metaphorical death of our relationship with nature, and on the other hand I am wanting to draw attention to the literal death of a species that I believe was the fundamental shift in our relationship with nature. When we eliminated the wolf from Britain we broke the ecosystem. an ecosystem that so many native of animal and plant have evolved to survive in, and when that broke, balance was lost and over time it has lead us to the situation we find ourselves in today where so many species of flora and fauna are in decline due to loss of habitat . . ."Gerad Chung

Gerad Chung's degree show had two symbiotic parts these wolf paws made with ceramics and an installation that I will share tomorrow.
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Gerad Chung II

June 11, 2015, 10:00 pm
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My installation is based on an old tradition called "Telling the Bees". 'Telling the bees' was a tradition of people keeping the bees up to date with events occurring in their life, particularly; Births, Deaths and Marriages. In the event of death the bee hive would be covered in black fabric to signify mourning. It was believed that bees were messengers of God and to not keep them informed of such events would bring about more deaths and failed marriages. Gerad Chung 
As an installation Gerad Chung's hives were haunting, the sound of bees filled the air but they were absent and their hives shrouded. Terrible in a way that man would assume to impose his mourning on these insects and now with his stupidity actually threaten their and our existence.
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Rachael Cocker I

June 12, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Things I like for breakfast  . . . would be no alarm clock, despite always waking up before the 6 o'clock bell every day, I am looking forward to a weekend free of its omnipresent threat. 
This is the bright, bold graphic illustration work of Rachael Cocker (Herbert Green) who recently graduated from ECA in illustration, I really like her scribbly slice of toast. 







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Rachael Cocker II

June 13, 2015, 10:00 pm
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Sarah Smith

June 14, 2015, 10:00 pm
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I have fallen in love with this illustration of a grandmother making slow progress on her old legs.
 'In apartment 53 where Nana Georgina live, the doorbell rings. Lately she has felt she has become quite slow at walking she makes her way to the door, shuffling from one foot to the other, over and over and over again - almost as though she has several pairs of legs.'The Butterfly House by Sarah Smith, Tate, London. 2014



 A lovely warm story about friendship between a grandmother and her grandchildren.
This grandmother is special (they all are).
She lives in a house full of butterflies and also knows how to change into one.
Sarah studied Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University in 2011 and is based in Bristol.
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Agata Juszczak III

June 15, 2015, 10:00 pm
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One old lady leads me to another and back to an illustrator, Agata Juszczak, whose work I love with its wild mix of media, abstract, surrealism and realism.

These are two of Agata's responses to "Słowa do rzeczy" (Words to Things) a competition organised by the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow in 2014 exploring popular Polish sayings and proverbs and their origins in popular culture. This competition asked that objects from the collection at the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, such as household appliances, agricultural tools and crafts, clothing, furniture that have fallen out of use be included. Creating new references and keeping the culture and understanding alive.
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Monika Grubizna

June 16, 2015, 10:00 pm
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It has been fun to see some of the responses to "Słowa do rzeczy" (Words to Things) a competition organised by the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow in 2014 exploring popular Polish sayings and proverbs and their origins in popular culture. This is the work of  Monica Grubizna that was chosen and published in 2014. Monica's work has evolved from a very strong tradition of Polish graphic design; both bold and subtle, but with a unique and complex Polish identity.
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Beata Nowak-Żurawska I

June 17, 2015, 10:00 pm
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I am really enjoying finding different illustrators reactions to the "Słowa do rzeczy" (Words to Things) a competition organised by the Ethnographic Museum in Krakow in 2014 exploring popular Polish sayings and proverbs and their origins in popular culture. Today's interpretations are by Beata Nowak-Żurawska and painted on cardboard which always brings a warm lived in comfort to work. I really like Beata's needle in a haystack approach to the hayfork in the top picture and the movement in the horse and deer in the bottom illustration.
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