Tues 22 April 2014 - The Metro - Barrie Tullett 'A Modern Anthology of Typewriter Art'

So on Tuesday, it was the first day back to work after a long bank holiday weekend. The tube and overground lines were playing up. As if getting up at 6:30am wasn't hard enough I had to take an alternative route into work.

However, I was soon smiling when I was reading the Metro on my phone and I saw a name that I recognised, my former university tutor, Barrie Tullett.

He was featured in the Metro because he's complied a book named 'A Modern Anthology of Typewriter Art' and I extremely honoured to say that I'm featured in this book which is going to be published by Laurence King Publishing which is released next month.

Read the article here: Barrie's Tullett's article in the Metro

144 train tickets on an A1 frame

That's right! Dan and I finally finished our mini-project yesterday- and it looks great! 

We decided to do something with all our train tickets that we collected from March this year after getting back from HK. After a few ums and ars we decided to put them on in a striped format. 

It certainly gives the train tickets a new lease of life. Just goes to show anything can be made into art.

:)

Am I going to be published?! ... An Anthology of Typewriter Art by Barrie Tullet

I was thrilled to recieve an email yesterday from my former Graphic Design tutor, Barrie. I received an email a few months ago asking if my work can be featured in his book 'An Anthology of Typewriter Art'. Of course, I was over the moon and sent my work across.

Then a few weeks later I received an email saying the copyright might not be cleared for the extract of text that I used from the book and they were waiting for confirmation from the publishers. It didn't look too good.

But behold! Yesterday the copyright was cleared and I will now be definitely featured in the book. 
The print run will be approximately 10,000 and it's expected to be published in April 2014 by Laurence King Publishing 'now recognised as one of the world's leading publishers of books on the creative arts.' 

I'm absolutely thrilled to bits and so honoured to be asked to be a part of it.

I won't give away the photograph of the typographic piece I created because I don't want to spoil the surprise ;)

Watch this space!!

LDN

So Dan had this fantastic opportunity at working at this pretty awesome design studio in London (who designs everything in-house for Nandos! (lucky sod!) I called a friend and asked for a favour and soon we found our way to London staying in a beautiful flat in Clapham Common. (Thank you for your kindness in helping us out- you know who you are!) Here's a few snaps throughout the week.

Dan and I walked to the studio, but we were a tad early so he treated us to a fantastic English breakfast at a local cafe. Turned out we went there every day until I had to leave. 

Whilst Dan was at this studio working hard, I pottered about London, dropping into design studios when I saw Invaders art work. For anyone who doesn't know who he is- look him up. He's like a mosaic Banksy..... And if you don't know who Banksy is then you really need educating on art and culture. Clearly, people had been picking off his tiles but it was still noticeable none the less.

After that I headed to YCN to just pop in and have a look around. 

Once I finished there, it wasn't even lunch time and I was wondered what the hell I was going to do for the rest of the day. After seeing Invaders art work I was thinking that I could just go around London looking for Banksy's work since I know that there are originals about somewhere.

My quest had begun.

I headed to Shore Ditch station and found this- a fence of love. People would write their name on a lock, lock in to the fence and throw away the key. It did look really pretty.

Firstly I headed to Mayfair to see this piece. I have to say, it wasn't where I expected it. Unless I had directions from the internet- I wouldn't have seen it. It was high up on a building side.

 After seeing the first piece, I headed down Oxford to see some lovely shops.

Don't forget Hamley's the toy store!

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HEY HO! If you saw my last post, you've have seen this guy who I met.

Yeah, that was a pretty awesome 15 minutes of my day.

 

Finally, I headed to the BT tower and saw this piece. It's covered over with plastic to ensure it can't be removed or vandalised. It looked absolutely fantastic seeing this in the flesh. Everyone was wondering why on earth I was taking photos on graffiti. I'm guessing they didn't know. Tut.

It was a pretty awesome, full packed week. So much happened, saw so much and was lucky enough to meet a legend. And it's all thanks to Dan, because if he didn't get a fantastic opportunity, I couldn't have even gone. I'm a lucky gal :)

Artist Rosie Ablewhite

A few weeks ago, I asked Rosie if she could do me a painting of my Dad on a stone for his birthday. I wanted something which was different, unusual and something which would be a conversation starter. My Dad keeps bees in the bottom of the garden so I asked her to paint his portrait. A week later and this is the beautiful outcome. Talented Rosie, is the new artist in residence of Lincoln Art Works.  She draws and paints beautiful portraits of well-known people and celebrities. Her work is fantastic.

  Click here to see Lincoln Art Works. (Or click on the tab at the top of the page)

You can click here to see her work.

Here are some photos of this beautiful piece.

Screen printing!

The other day I did some screen printing for the first time properly. I didn't really appreciate the time that it took to do these. But I'm incredibly happy with the outcome! :)

 

Drying on the rack

Final outcomes

Personalising my name on the back as some of the prints are gifts

Lovely :)

Wow-Oh-Wow // Day Two, Three, Four

I'll begin to try and write about these past few days... (I'm sorry if this doesn't make any sense- I'm still trying to digest everything myself)...

WOW

I've finished my first weeks work placement with Sam Winston. If you don't know who he is, I suggest you click on his name and find out.

I had the great opportunity yesterday to have a look at Sam's original 'Orphan' story.

These are a few pictures of his piece.

beautiful

Then later on in the afternoon we went to see George, a very talented print man who has an exceptional eye for imperfections. Sam went to get some prints of his Death festival piece.

I really wanted to attend the exhibition at the South Bank Centre but I unfortunately couldn't make it down but he was kind enough to let me draw my very own circle on the birth piece.

These were all drawn by hand.

The tally's Sam created to keep track of how many circles he had drawn.

TEA!

I'm gradually making my way through Sam's extensive tea collection. Peppermint, camomile and honey, white tea, elderflower etc etc

This is the view form George's studio floor. This was just before the sun started to set. 

(A really yummy very berry smoothie I had this morning... NOM!)

Today I had the opportunity to work on another project Sam is currently doing with Oliver Jeffers.

I was cutting out the type from children's stories to scan in to create another form of artwork. (If this book gets published, I am running to the nearest book shop, buying it and I will scream in excitement that I had a very small input into a great piece of work)

All in all, an absolutely great week. It's nice to have a change from the same day-in, day-out routine I have and to travel and do something different and learn something new and to simply meet new people and enjoy it. 

Sam Winston Placement // Day One

So I had my first day at work placement with the talented Sam Winston yesterday. It's been years since I've been to London, and I've never travelled there on my own so there was an awful lot to take in yesterday. Sam was kind enough to take me out to lunch with a friend. We went to happy kitchen which is a beautiful organic little food shop. The food tastes wonderful. They have strong morals about where their food is sourced from and it's all organic. I've never eaten any where like that do it was like a whole other food culture for me. Sam then took me next door to a salt bread shop where they bake everything in house- niiicee! Sam and I shared a sandwich from there. It was delicious. My train was cancelled in the evening which was a tad annoying but I eventually made it to Bishops Stortford. All in all, a great day. It is a privilege to meet Sam Winston and work with him in his space. I will be taking as much from this trip as humanly possibly and making myself a human sponge and absorbing literally everything. Here goes the next few days....!!

London Liverpool Street

Le Gun Studios Entrance

The wonderful little Salt House Bakery

The organic little 'Happy Kitchen'