Here's the front of the card I designed for our wedding invitation.
The pomegranates were inspired by the garden outside our cottage in Ibiza where we got engaged last autumn. I ate ripe figs and pomegranates every day - how could I not when they were hanging on the trees in the garden all around us?
Heaven.
I'm off to Cape Town today, to get married in a few weeks. Back mid March, five whole weeks of sun and celebration.
Sometimes I start a small warm up painting without knowing where I'm going, just colour, line and sometimes a pattern if something emerges. This small study on lovely thick paper has been knocking around the studio for a bit, and I've grown to love aspects of it. I hope something similar shows up in my more formal, structured illustration work sometime.
been scanning some older work for an online food portfolio, and remembered that I haven't put this one up yet. it was made to thank the lovely appletart, for the plates she gave me, one of which is pictured here.
it's been a slow few weeks in terms of new illustrations, but these are drawings I sometimes do to warm up and to keep the magic of brush and colour flowing onto nobbly paper alive. my lovely mum often sends me wonderful seedpods and things to remind me of home; the pebbles follow me home from the sea. watercolour.
And now her mum has seen it, here's the birthday card for baby Olivia's first birthday too.
Hope I made this card a teeny bit as bright and full of fun as the delightful Olivia is. Off to Stockholm to celebrate her Big One this weekend. Happy Birthday, gorgeous girl!
Painted one rainy morning in Blekinge, Southern Sweden, in a teeny wooden housie with a red wooden table and chairs, listening to a Beethoven piano concerto on an old skool crackling radio. Oak trees, wildflower meadows and murder slugs just outside the door, the placid Baltic and my sis's summer house a two minute walk away.
Sketched one rare sunny day back in May, where the combination of bench in sun and detailed shopfronts was just too good to resist. Two more Hackney street drawings here.
