My Folk Lover

we say meow...

I have long been a follower of Anke Weckmann's beautiful work. She has a lovely way with colour and pattern and I am constantly inspired by her. In addititon to her own blog, she keeps a very cute cat art blog with fellow artist Mary Kilvert where she recently featured my diamond pullover cats. You can take a look at We Say Meow here:

http://wesaymeow.blogspot.com

Take a look at Anke's beautiful work here:

www.linotte.net

http://ankeweckmann.blogspot.com

billabong...

Yesterday I got a parcel in the post... it was kinda exciting. I made a t-shirt with Billabong! If I could time travel to 1992 and tell my 13 year old self that there would one day be a Billabong t-shirt with my picture on it, I would have thought that was pretty rad. The best part... they named it after me! It's the Catherine Tee...

 

They have it available in stores and right here.

colouring in...

I almost forgot to mention this, but I was just over at Caitlin's blog looking at a beautiful colouring-in book put together by Yael Frankel, and it reminded me. 

Small Magazine, who provide some of my favourite online gazing, have released a colouring-in book based on all the 'small draw' contributions from previous issues. I'm in there as you can see below (right next to my all time favourite Jen Corace!). I'm sure it would make a little person very happy, if you are interested you can pick one up right here:

smallmagazine.etsy.com

 

Oh I just sat in my own little world for a moment thinking about all the colouring-in books in my life. I used to love colouring-in books so much. The ones on nice white paper with sharp black lines, not the ones on cheap newsprint style paper that made your texta bleed... yuk. Ultimate colouring-in book child snob I was.

sunshine...

Were you in Melbourne today? It felt like Summer might arrive one day... it was nice.

Image via Garance Dore

odilon redon...

Odilon Redon is my favourite at the moment. You can see a lot of his work right here.

anna piaggi...

Anna Piaggi

It is cool when people rock their own universe.

the sirens...

I'm reading a lot of classical mythology at the moment. I love this picture of Ulysses being tempted by the Sirens by Herbert James Draper (click on it to enlarge).

new website...

I just made a brand spanking new website. If you have a quiet minute feel free to have a bit of a test drive and tell me of any problems you may find!

You can take a look right here:

www.catherinecampbell.net

Thank you!

new prints...

I have just added these new prints to my store:

Eternal Muse - Print Set

Time and Space - Print Set

 The Beat Goes On - Print

Closet Romantic - Print

Dressing for a Crescent Moon #1-4 - Individual Prints

Please hop over here if you are interested, thank you!

http://myfolklover.etsy.com

building a wall...

This past weekend we made some walls. Well some very excellent and generous friends came in and took control of the job for us. It was very exciting, okay not that walls are usually that exciting, but these walls have now divided our little space into a front gallery area with studios behind. They are beautiful walls. They are going to make fun things happen I think.

We should have them painted and finished by the end of the week and then we can take the frosting down that is on the front windows and we will have a... gallery! 

We are hopefully going to get excellent people to put lovely art on these walls, and we will open the doors and you can come and have a look if you like.

This whole process has been quite a funny, one thing leading to another type process but hey, we have gallery! Now to organise a show...

p.s. On a different note, I've had a few enquiries so I thought I'd mention that I'm planning on updating my shop on Tuesday afternoon with a lot of new prints from the work that was in my recent show. The virtual shop, not the real life one you see above.