I have spent the last little while in Sydney having a lovely quiet time with family. My mum gave me her old stamp collection, it is a treasure trove of beautiful little pictures that will hopefully inspire some future drawings...
For no reason at all, a random picture of my favourite house-plant, which thankfully survived my absence...
Well, after stalking the web pages of Betsy Walton for the past week I thought I would be creating lots of busy little pieces full of colour. It doesn't seem to have turned out that way... in fact everything seems to be white at the moment. White white, creamy white, greyish white, pinkish white, all snipped up for some new little papercuts.
For now, I have only a shadow to show you...
Just messing around with a few things. Dresses that hold secrets and autumn leaves...
Still nothing to show in terms of my own work, so instead some more of what I have been feeding on for inspiration. I love the work of Inca Pan, he is an artist from Taiwan who makes very lovely things...
This heat has to stop. I can't do anything in the heat and it is annoying me... I have ideas that need to get onto the paper. Oh well, they will have to keep tight, swimming around in my mind for a little longer. Instead, I will tell you that I have fallen in love with the art of Betsy Walton. Her art is so fantastically busy and balanced all at the same time...
Yesterday I heard that one of my favourite artists, Del Kathryn Barton, won the Archibald Prize. Nice one.
'You Are What Is Most Beautiful About Me, A Self Portrait With Kell and Arella'
This is from the Sydney Morning Herald, it made me giggle...
"DEL KATHRYN BARTON won the Archibald Prize yesterday, for a self-portrait with her two children, but her two-year-old daughter, Arella, showed little reverence for her mother's work. When she saw the work hanging among the 40 finalists at the Art Gallery of NSW, she walked past and gave it a thump."
Here are two more that I quite like...
So I'm feeling quite inspired and as I have all My Folk Lover orders shipped, I have the whole day free to sit and think about making some art... maybe actually make some art. Nice one.
p.s. Thankyou for all the lovely birthday messages! 29 is starting to feel a-ok...
I almost forgot that I had some new art to show... finally! These are the two pieces I made for the exhibition that opened at Kick gallery a couple of weeks ago. It is hard to see the details in these photos but the images are embroidered onto cotton...
Also, some of the originals I had in the Tinyshop exhibition at Double Punch gallery in San Francisco are now for sale on the interweb. If you are interested you can take a look at the Tinyshop blog right here:
p.s. It was my birthday on the weekend... I'm now 29... yikes!
Small is a lovely online magazine for children. Each issue features a different illustrator in the 'small draw' section and guess what... this issue it is me! There is even a Small colouring book and you can print a black and white pdf of one of my drawings... to colour yourself or to give to some one a little bit smaller...
Catherine Campbell is an Australian illustrator and art maker.
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