Thursday 27 October 2011

..Moira Maclean...Wallpaper Pirate...


As promised...one of my all time favourite artists and a massive inspiration....Moira Maclean.
 I remember when I discovered her in the Morven Gallery on Lewis for the first time, I was mesmerised by her work, but also extremely jealous that I hadn't created it! ;)
She is known as the 'wallpaper pirate', and like myself she works with old wallpapers, a lot of them salvaged from the many abandoned buildings on Lewis. Her work is just beautiful and I hope to own a piece one day!! Have a look......

Wednesday 26 October 2011

...one of my favs...

Just having an hour off from making....it has been a busy few weeks since starting being creative again and Lucky Makes is starting to take shape...still so much to learn and do, and I have soooo many ideas but I have to realise that I can't do it all in one day and to take my time with designs. I work full time and at the moment this is just something I do in my spare time. But the orders are coming in now and it's all very exciting seeing my little Lucky Makes parcels being posted off to customers!!

I was just watching Kirsty's Handmade Britain on C4. I was reminded of a real talent who I wrote about in my dissertation at Art School(I did my dissertation on Wallpaper!!)and who inspires me greatly...Claire Coles, her work is just stunningly beautiful and I wish I could machine embroider like her!! Hopefully doing a wee course in January though so will be trying it out on my designs soon!! Have a look at some of these beautiful creations from Claire....


I will share one of my other fav artists tomo, all very inspiring!!xxx

Sunday 21 August 2011

Sketchbooks

Unfinished drawings and sketchbook collages...I sometimes think I would rather have them framed on my wall than finished art work...here are a few images of some my fav pages from my sketchbooks..so many ideas...just need to concentrate on a few and go for it....















Wednesday 10 August 2011

I love collage!

Well here is my first post....an image I just found tonight and like :)......got to start somewhere :)