I just found out i'll be at the next Finders Keepers market here in Melbourne. I'm currently scheming up lots of new goodies, right alongside all the new bits and pieces I'm making for my exhibition... which opens the night before!
If you haven't made it to a Finders Keepers market yet, you should get down as they're excellent events. Hopefully i'll see you in April...
This is my Mum and Dad in LA. I love this photo. I just pinched it from my Mum's instagram.
I'm currently preparing for an upcoming exhibition at The People's Market in Collingwood. The People's Market is an excellent little spot with good food and drink and small galleries found inside converted shipping containers. I will have more information regarding the opening night party and exhibition dates towards the end of March (the show will be in April). For now, I'm working on new pictures! It's my first exhibition in almost two years and it feels nice to hang up the illustrator's hat for a while and concentrate on my own personal work.
In my real world nine to five type job, I sometimes work with a very talented artist and animator by the name of Rebecca Hayes. She's my go-to when I want to discuss the latest episode of Girls or need a recommendation for a good period drama. She also has her finger on the pulse when it comes to excellent websites and these are two that she recently recommended:
Be warned, if you follow those links hours may vanish.
(Images by Phoebe Wahl - phoebewahl.com)
We recently moved house and yikes, what a drag that was. I haven't moved house in about seven years, I very quickly realised that I also haven't thrown anything out in seven years. I am a hoarder - I was a blissfully unaware hoarder. Not any longer, I have made a promise to myself that I will no longer collect unwanted things in boxes which I pile high in the backyard shed. I don't even have a backyard shed now... thank goodness.
Anyway, other than that, the point of this post was to address the fact that I now need to begin a new garden. This is kind of exciting, partly because I can plan the whole system from scratch - I'm going to have uniform beds with a drip irrigation system! I'm also getting the bunnies on board in a permaculture kind of way; Dot and Digger - super rabbits/poop machines - are going to provide me with plant based, animal friendly compost. For now though, I'm planting a new batch of seeds, preparing some winter greens - kale, silver beet, lettuce and parsley. One step at a time.
These most beautiful illustrations (above) are by an artist called Pheobe Wahl. You can find more of her work at phoebewahl.com. I must admit they represent my make-believe house and vegetable garden, but one can always dream...
Catherine Campbell is an Australian illustrator and art maker.
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