away with the fairies

My Books

2006-05-28T11:17:00.000-07:00

Here is the finished product at my degree show!

My books are finally finished.

2006-05-28T10:59:00.000-07:00

So I've created my 2 stories. I scanned my paintings, then printed them out on expensive paper. I then got the pages bound in hardback.

Here are 2 pages taken from Philippe's Afterlife and Karmen's Afterlife.

Expand

2006-03-16T11:26:00.000-08:00

A little poem I wrote about my other half in which without I am in complete.

Expand, let it expand again,
back to its original state,
then you'll be back with me.

Allow green specks flow into it,
into those sacks that inhabit our preciousness,
my gift to you.

Imagine expansion, healing green energy
Open for him,
Breathe positive
Release negative
Heal him..

... soon.

tempting fate is not good.

2006-03-11T02:05:00.000-08:00

When I said I could deal with big things, I lied. I have tempted fate too many times.

Inspirations..

2006-02-18T08:18:00.000-08:00

Bjork! She has been a huge inspiration to me over the last few years. Her music, clothes, album art is all so imaginative and unique! She's just great. Unfortunately I've never seen her live, one day though I will!

Bjork's friend Gabriela is an artist who has also inspired me. Her drawings have been used for Bjork's Family Tree album. The little froggy thing below is one of her drawings. I actually saw her art at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It was really great, I just wished I had longer to see it all. I was kind of rushed. One of her pieces was a video and it feature Bjork dressed up in sandbags, giving birth to this moldy person. It was quite strange but great.

www.gabriela.is/index_2.htm

My paintings.

2006-02-16T08:47:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I'm an art student in my final year. For my degree show I'm creating a number of children stories. Each one is based on a child passing away and entering the afterlife. It may seem grim but my paintings are all about easing children's fears about dying. My paintings of the afterlife are very imaginative and peaceful. I hope that my paintings will encourage children to be open minded about what waits for them when they pass over. I'm fed up of this stereotypical image of pearly gates and fluffy white clouds. In my case, my "heaven" is a forest with surreal plant life and under the sea, where you are met by strange creatures riding on the back of a whale. Eventually these children merge with nature and become part of the universe, where the cycle begins again.

Flower girl (series, watercolour)

This particular painting is of Karmen, one of my characters. After she has passed over and transcended through the forest - through the different stages of the spiritual planes, she turns into a flower. These little paintings will be hung on the wall, whereas the other paintings will be turned into a book.

This painting is part of a series. Each painting is of Karmen turning into a flower. They are only small, and I am willing to paint extra ones and sell them if anybody is interested.
My newest character is Philippe who turns into a piece of coral. Soon I'll be creating small paintings of him transforming into coral.

Connected thought form

These abstract paintings are manifestations of my character's and their families thoughts as they pass over. If their thoughts could be seen this is what each thought would look like. I've painted a thought form for each story scene. This is just one of them. This particular painting corresponds to the last painting in my first story - when Karmen turns into a flower and becomes whole with the universe.

Astrological birth charts

2006-02-11T02:19:00.000-08:00

This is my natal chart (click on it to make it bigger). It shows the positions of all the planets the time I was born. This makes up my character. The planets are constantly shifting from house to house and the positions the planets were the time you are born makes up your character. Each planet and house has it's own meaning. I've always been interested in astrology and my natal chart is quite accurate in describing me. Many people are skeptical but I say why don't you just treat it as a bit of fun, there is no harm in that.

You can easily make one for yourself if you know the time you are born. The web address is www.astrology.com and look for the free personal readings. If you can't find it, you could give me your details and I could do it for you.

I like to collect other people's natal charts and write down what it all means in my red hello kitty book! It's so cute! Also I record all my tarot readings in there too.

I have too much time...

2006-02-07T00:48:00.000-08:00

When we went to India last year my mother's friend had to stay at our house and look after our 8 cats. My mother ended up creating this 8 page booklet, each page for one of the cats:

Name
Relation
Likes
Dislikes
Temperament
Info

(This is my version though)

Name: Taffy
Relatives: None, although Scruffy is like a brother to him
Likes: Going out and wandering off, fighting, mauling at my face with his nails and asad
Dislikes: Sandy, being picked up by me or my mother
Temperament: Volatile! He could kill a small child I reckon.
Info: The only cat who isn't a stray. He was given to my sister by her friend when he was a kitten.

Name: Scruffy (aka Scruffers)
Relatives: None
Likes: Isolation, drinking from the bath tap
Dislikes: Sandy
Temperament: Quiet, bit of a loner
Info: Mum found him as a kitten, covered in paint wandering around outside her friend's house.

Name: Sandy
Relative: Daisy (sister)
Likes: Food a lot! Women
Dislikes: Taffy, Scruffy
Temperament: Loving, docile
Info: Stray, found him wandering about outside the house with his sister (who he also knocked up)

Name: Daisy
Relatives: Sandy (brother)
Likes: Being spoilt
Dislikes: The men, dirty litter trays
Temperament: Bit of a demanding diva
Info: Got knocked up by Sandy

Name: Billi (aka Billi boppers or Little Billi)
Relatives: Patchi (Mother)
Likes: Chasing birds through the window and tinned sardines
Dislikes: Being alone
Temperament: Hesitant
Info: She's Patchi's daughter although I don't think Patchi realizes. She isn't a big eater like her mother.

Name: Patchi
Relatives: Billi
Likes: My mother
Dislikes: Taffy definately and the other male cats, being swung around
Temperament: Patient, Obedient
Info: She is the boss of all the female cats, a high ranking cat. The only one who can handle Kitti.

Name: Fluffy (aka Fluffers or Mr White)
Relatives: None
Likes: Tinned tuna and Kitti
Dislikes: Being brushed and the vacuum cleaner
Temparent: Friendly
Info: British short hair

Name: Kitti (aka Mrs White)
Relatives: None
Likes: Fluffy, food, Sophie and bath water
Dislikes: Being held by me and being behind a closed door
Temperament: Naughty, intelligent and loyal
Info: She gets on with my sister the best because they are both rebels without a cause. She's a siamese short hair

Unfortunately I don't have a photo of Tiger but she is this huge ginger Oriental Tabby, who mainly lives outside because she doesn't get on with the other cats :(
Oh my God! I forgot to put up a photo of my Daisy Pops! She would never forgive me if i didn't add her photo too!

Name: Daisy (aka Daisy pops)
Relatives: None
Likes: Being stroked, brushed, getting attention, food a lot, me and nick
Dislikes: Not getting any attention and being swung around Temperament: Very affectionate and can be quite jealous
Info: She dribbles a lot when smoothed too much. Daisy is my boyfriend's cat

Name: Bruce (aka Brucey Brucey Brucey)
Relatives: None
Likes: Birds
Dislikes: Me
Temperament: Can be a little volatile with me but loves nick
Info: Swipes me sometimes as I walk past him. He sleep on top of the fridge.

Will I keep this up?

2006-02-06T14:35:00.000-08:00

This is my second attempt of creating a blog. The first blog lasted about a week.

I thought it would be a good idea to create a blog to record any ideas I have for my paintings, and give the opportunity for others to offer constructive critisim or just to rip my work to shreads.
I'll probably ramble on about other stuff that is unrelated to art or my paintings... probably astrology and cats.
Anyway we'll see.