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Simone White

2009-07-15T00:09:00.001+01:00

Allotment

2009-07-14T23:51:00.001+01:00

Mosaic Monday

2009-07-13T00:17:00.002+01:00

Mosaic Monday, originally uploaded by Feltbug.

1. be proud of what you nurture and grow, 2. Nine Pods (together), 3. Dreaming in Red, 4. Untitled, 5. Which illustration do you prefer? Thanks for your opinion!, 6. orange, 7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life ~~~~~~~~~~~~, 8. Adult outdoor pursuits blanket, 9. Orange and Black, 10. Dripping from orange, 11. The Orange House in Gloucester Street, 12. Moleskine I, 13. Body w/ Pink on Orange S #2, 14. blue vs. orange, 15. orange roof, 16. Oranges, 17. orange & blue 1, 18. Chinatown Oranges, 19. orange satin ribbon, 20. grey and orange, 21. orange collection, 22. orange, 23. rare orange seaglass, 24. Angel 9, 25. decay, 26. Inventaire Alimentaire_044, 27. 9 roses / Basel, 28. Bird found some thread, 29. Antique watch face die-cut pendants, 30. bisque doll

Here is a selection of photographs and artwork by some of my lovely friends on flickr. Click on the image to go to flickr where you can find the featured artists or use the links above to go to the individual artist's flickr. Thankyou to all the artists for sharing their pictures.

Rescued & Revived Ltd.

2009-07-11T08:59:00.008+01:00

The delightful duo Botkin & Galliers launch Rescued and Revived Ltd today at Barnes Fair, London SW13 - their emporium of curious delights includes these marvellous outdoor adult pursuit blankets.

Bon Anniversaire

2009-07-06T15:57:00.002+01:00

Rook

Redcurrants

2009-07-02T20:47:00.003+01:00

I picked 1.5 kilos of redcurrants on the allotment, they are going to be made into recurrant jelly.

Eel Pie Open Studios

2009-07-02T20:38:00.004+01:00

Melanie Miller and Judith Rowe are opening their studios on Eel Pie island in Twickenham this weekend. Part of the annual ARThouse open studios.

FIG. 23.

2009-06-26T14:19:00.002+01:00

Drawing on the District Line

2009-06-26T14:16:00.001+01:00

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

2009-06-26T14:04:00.002+01:00

I watched this new video by the fabulous Yeah Yeah Yeahs this morning, then I heard the news about Michael Jackson.

Friday favourites :)

2009-06-26T13:35:00.002+01:00

Friday favourites :), originally uploaded by Feltbug.

1. oneangelsketch, 2. SWEET TEETH!, 3. sheet 01, 4. Loan Sheet, 5. Washing, 6. A Mere Suggestion of a Bed, 7. bed., 8. Empty Bed, 9. Tooth Ache?, 10. the heart, 11. chicklove, 12. Nob, 13. Tooth wings, 14. wings, attitude and music, 15. woolen wings, 16. Pixie (SPT/HNT 25.6.09 and 275/365), 17. LUCIFER, 18. Knife Winged Wheel, 19. if you are without wings, 20. PAPILLON, 21. Soldier's goodbye & Bobbie the cat, ca. 1939-ca. 1945 / by Sam Hood, 22. Untitled, 23. Untitled, 24. wishing for, 25. though evelyn knew the circus was her home sometimes late at night she would consider leaving, 26. notes taken during college, art class i hope - if not i really should've been paying more attention, 27. te extraño cada segundo que no te tengo cerca, 28. IMG_0473, 29. I Think I'm Over The Hardest Part, 30. slime mold

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Here is a selection of photographs and artwork by some of my lovely friends on flickr. Click on the image to go to flickr where you can find the featured artists or use the links above to go to the individual artist's flickr. Thankyou to all the artists for sharing their pictures.

Allotment

2009-06-23T23:38:00.002+01:00

Trail of tears

2009-06-18T23:43:00.005+01:00

I received a lovely package from my friend, Marc containing some very special beans and a lovely Louise Bourgeois postcard. The beans are from The Real Seed Catalogue, No. 99046 'Cherokee Trail of Tears'

This bean was originally from the native North American Cherokee people. In 1838 they were driven out of their homelands in the state of Georgia by the US government to make room for more European settlers , a forced march known as the 'Trail of Tears'. This bean is one of their heirlooms they managed to keep with them and has been passed on from generation to generation ever since.

After we parted

2009-06-18T23:16:00.009+01:00

I went underground ...

I heard opera as I travelled down the escalator and so I retraced my steps in order to record the sound and when I got onto the overcrowded tube train I heard women talking about the very thing we had just been speaking about.

I think the movies work best if you play them simultaneously.

Georgia Russell

2009-06-18T23:00:00.003+01:00

Etudes sur l'hystérie 2009

Cut and painted book in bell jar 29.5 x 12.5 inches

"Georgia Russell slashes, cuts and dissects printed matter, which she then manipulates and re-constructs into extravagant, ornamental, sculptural paper-works. The decorative qualities and inherent potential of her found ephemera are fully exploited as she transforms books, music scores, prints, newspapers, maps or photographs – sometimes with flamboyant colour and wild cutting, or with discreet play on the subject or title of her printed matter. Her works hover between object and image."

Georgia Russell is exhibiting at England & Co, 216, Westbourne Grove, London W11 until 27th June.

Saul Fletcher

2009-06-18T22:47:00.004+01:00

Untitled#210 (Birdcage), 2009

black & white Polaroid 13.3 x 10.8 cms

"In his photographs Saul Fletcher visualizes human existence in all its temporal dimensions and physical fragility. The scenes he depicts achieve a concentrated intimacy: In order to take in every detail, the viewer is compelled to get as close as possible to the work. His careful still lifes draw attention to details; the discarded moments of the everyday become the focus, and in this way are imbued with new or altered meaning.”Extract from catalogue for the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006)

Saul Fletcher is showing photographs and installations at Alison Jaques Gallery, 16-18 Berners Street, London W1 until 27th June.

Robin

2009-06-18T22:30:00.003+01:00

This robin likes to come and join me and look for worms when I am digging the flowerbeds on the allotment. Today I uncovered a multitude of insects when I was clearing the dead flowers. It was a feast for this little bird.

Yellow

2009-06-18T16:53:00.000+01:00

Compost

2009-06-17T06:33:00.002+01:00

Decay

2009-06-17T00:08:00.001+01:00

Rose

Foxgloves

2009-06-17T00:05:00.002+01:00

Waiting to be planted

Where the wild things are

Mosaic Monday

2009-06-15T07:53:00.002+01:00

Mosaic Monday, originally uploaded by Feltbug.

1. Orbital..., 2. white flowers in white snow, 3. white, 4. white motion, 5. new white collage, 6. white, 7. 09-06-06 White Stripes, 8. Custom White Felt Wool Beads #2, 9. tiny white donkey, 10. winter white: beautiful use, 11. wiltons/black and white liquors, 12. White on white, 13. birds & trees, 14. White Smock hanging out, 15. surgery heart white, 16. Body Black/White, 17. southeast :: hallway, 18. White, 19. Black and White Felted Cocktail Dress, 20. five white things on a pink sheet, 21. "The White Hotel", 22. delicious white buttons., 23. The black cat is trying to figure out the truth white cat, 24. White..., 25. white, 26. Allt vitt - All white, 27. White Papercut., 28. White Hair, 29. practically tooo white, 30. white

Here is a selection of photographs and artwork by some of my lovely friends on flickr. Click on the image to go to flickr where you can find the featured artists or use the links above to go to the individual artist's flickr. Thankyou to all the artists for sharing their pictures.

The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes

2009-06-14T23:22:00.005+01:00

The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes, by Phyllis Krasilovsky, illustrated by Barbara Cooney. Published 1962.

Undisclosed

2009-06-14T22:57:00.006+01:00

undone

unmade

unfolded

unlaundered

unwashed

Things I noticed today, ordinarily some things I would rather not share but somehow I saw something else here, a rhythm, a theme, an absence of colour. And it all fitted in with recent posts of objects and the illusion of order in the home and studio. There is a new group on flickr, The Persistent Thread - that has also got me thinking ...

The Social Lives of Objects

2009-06-14T11:16:00.002+01:00

Assemblage by Hilary Jack

Hilary Jack, Lisa Penny and Dallas Seitz are artistic plunderers of the roadside skip, the charity shop and of the more eccentric reaches of eBay. They recycle the detritus of our urban existences: broken umbrellas, last month's magazines, false teeth, detached stilettos, mangy fox stoles, mantelpiece ceramic ornaments no longer treasured. Their raw materials bear the marks of backstreet histories. Through an aesthetic of fragmentation, of disorientation and unpredictable re-assemblage, they arrive at sculptural images that come on like dream mementos of fictional autobiographies, or icons of obscure personal mythologies. It's a sculptural tradition with a long history - dada, surrealism - the mundane made marvellous, bad taste transformed into something else. Robert Clark The Guardian

Currently showing at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester until 19 July. You can read more about Hilary Jack on her website and her blog.