From the Wonderful Maurice Sendak

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Maurice Sendak  (via bbbrad)

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Ooh, look what I found in my shed.

Actually, my husband found it on a shelf sitting behind a small tool box.  What is it?  It is a European Wasp nest. An amazing and somewhat creepy bit of entomological architecture.  The compartments down the left hand side of the next contain the empty shells of the wasp grub, while the compartments down the right side contain that spiders that were dragged there to feed the developing grubs.

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Come and Meet Me in the Middle of the Air

This is my latest work.  It is the second in my Heaven and Earth Series and is titled "Come and Meet Me in the Middle of the Air".   It is my rendering of a nebula.  Worked in my usual hand dyed silk thread, I have added some bronze wing pigeon feathers for texture.

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I had my work for my up coming solo show (April 27, 2012 at the Goulburn Street Gallery) professionally photographed last week.  Once I have taken delivery of the photos I can start building my website.  Exciting!  I'll also be able to start promotional work.  I intend to send promo material to all the major art magazines.  I don't know if any of them will cover the show, but if you don't put yourself out there you will never know.

I went to the opening of a show by my friends Diana Eaton and Sonja Cook at the Goulburn.  Seeing their lovely work hanging in the gallery made me feel that, yes, I am going to have a solo show and yes, it is real!

I'll have a new work finished and up on my blog in the next week or so.

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mysterious book sculptures

Stunning book sculptures such as the one shown below have been appearing mysteriously and anonymously in libraries across the UK.  Read more about these beautiful and most precious of gifts.

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I love these Galactik Trading Cards.  Wonderful idea, masterfully executed.

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Acid Drops - Episode 1 - Jason Dill from matt box on Vimeo.
The first in a series of hand painted studies that aim to psychedelically capture the individual styles of influential skateboarders.

This is another incredible animation.  I love the way the artist has used water colour, often only making the suggestion of a form thereby inviting the eye to fill in the missing information as it follows the fluid lines.  Just beautiful. Pin It