“Out of the darkness, only light can come” Making me happy today: the wonderful, dreamlike, ever-so-Aussie, inside-the-pop-up-book stop-motion illustrations by Snip Green of “Spring to Come” by the John Butler Trio. John Butler Trio – Spring To Come from Dropbear on Vimeo.
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I thought Melbourne’s rising mercury today would form an appropriate backdrop to showcase these seriously gorgeous works from Brooklyn (NY)-based illustrator Monica Ramos. They’re part of a series that she calls “A Hot Summer,” based on summer in the Philippines. I’ve been wanting to show you Monica’s work for ages. Take a look through her…
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I had wanted to spend the evening last night writing a witty and clever blog post that would make you smile. Instead, I spent the night on my hands and knees sponging baby vomit off the floors, after spending the afternoon cleaning baby vomit off my baby and his pram and a goodly portion of…
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I liked ceramicist and sculptor Valerie Restarick immediately, when she didn’t want to sell me the beautiful stoneware bowl that was proudly displayed in her little studio-shop. “Are you sure?” she asked, hugging the bowl tightly to her belly. “Have you seen the price?” The price was actually quite reasonable. Admittedly it was 100 percent…
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“My work is as much a physical feat of endurance as much as it is a loving creative respite.” ~ Jacqueline Fink Jacqueline Fink is a knitter, and some. She is also a crafter, a dreamer, and an artist. And a mother. Jacqueline learned to knit, like so many others, from her own mother. She…
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The video below is amazing. It’s a rare and quite vulnerable insight into the inspiration behind artist and sculptor Shelia Berger’s work, and the personal and creative path she follows as she pursues that inspiration. It starts with a family bereavement and an empty nest found in her childhood home, and builds from there. Often…
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How do you keep track of your creative life? Recently I drew this mind-mappy flow-charty thing to try to figure out, for myself, how all my various fun and creative projects relate to and support one another. Here’s what I learned about my creative life from creating this map: 1. Writing a novel was not…
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I have not been able to stop looking at these lovely photographs of “camouflaged” birds, ever since I saw them on Honestly WTF. They are part of a series called “Birds of a Feather” by artist Claire Rosen and each of the birds – some of them common and others exotic – has been posed…
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Little things in my home… This pensive cowboy sits outside his restaurant and on my kitchen bench. I found his photograph in a bric-a-brac shop in Aspen, Colorado, when I was staying up there for a fiction writer’s course (called Aspen Summer Words – if you ever get the opportunity take it – it was…
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The journey of the days and weeks deep and then deeper again into the winter season feels like a deliberate grinding down. A forcible slowing, as primal as hibernation. It starts on the first morning you realise you’re getting up in the dark, and that night blankets the streets outside before the kitchen fires up…
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These gorgeous geometric colour explosions are the works of Western Australian artist and landscape artist Emma Lipscombe. It’s hard to tell from the photographs but they are actually made with oil-paint on individually-cut pieces of wood, fitted together into intricate and beautifully tactile patterns. I love finding out how artists and other creative people come…
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Little things in my home… Inside this snow globe is a sculpture of my old house. If you look closely, you can see the No. 10 number-plate gleaming proudly beside the door. This was the first home that I ever owned and lived in, and it was glorious. Old carved-oak staircases winding up and dividing…
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