Seasonal transitions

Here we are in the midst of Autumn. The clocks have gone back and the half term is over. It takes me till about now every year  to stop mourning the passing of Summer and start to look forward to Winter, with all its beauty and celebrations.
Fitting then, that I joined  Totnes Transition Town one sunny day last week, in an exercise to imagine a vision of the future.
Local artists, children, and anyone else who wanted to, were asked to draw, using recycled cardboard, charcoal and paint, how they imagined the future to look. Whether it was the clothes they would wear, the houses the would live in, or how they would get around.
There were Viking space helmets, rocket ships, visions of sustainable living, including wind farms and water wheels, and a very fine and completely practical bicycle-powered hand glider (mine!)
Much fun was had, much charcoal was spread around and hopefully, it made us think a little bit about how our lives might change in a world without without fossil fuel.

Life up the hill.

My new front door! (my window is the second floor)

view from the fire escape

I 've been a little quiet for a week or two as I've been settling into my lovely new studio space on Totnes High Street and trying to remember where I put everything. So I thought it was time I showed you  round a bit , and let you see what I'm doing in it at themoment.

 

business as usual....

meeting room for important clients!

Pirates Ahoy!

It has just come to my notice  that Redbubble have featured my Pirate Hamster in their designs for International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Hamster is my favourite Pirate Animal design (although he has some pretty cool friends!) and I was even more excited when I discovered that you can now order iPhone cases as well as Tshirts, babygrows, cards and all the other groovy stuff.

I'll be putting Pirate Hamster on an iPhone case this afternoon, and maybe a couple of other designs too, go and have a look, remember, Christmas is coming!

Illustration Friday "hibernate"

If I were a bear, this is how I would do it.

New T shirts and cards.

 Camille

 Eloise

 Rosamund. 3 new cards on Redbubble.

I've just added a couple of Tshirts and some cards to my Redbubble shop. You can now buy stuff right here on my blog, check out the new pages,"buy Tshirts at Redbubble" and "buy cards at Redbubble" It really couldn't be easier. Hope you like them.
By the way, the original paintings will soon be available from my etsy shop.

ferocious!

One from the sketch book for Illustration Friday. She may be small but I definitely wouldn't mess with her!

Moving space....

At the end of September I'll be moving out of my little studio and up the hill to a big room I'll be sharing with some other "creative types". Although I'm excited about the move, I can't deny that I'll miss the friends I've made while I've been here- Jock, the annoyingly brilliant comic book artist who lives upstairs and who provided my kettle, Alan, the writer from over the road, Paula, who had this studio before me and brings us lunch on Tuesdays, Cathy the story teller, who shared her stories of Charlie Crow, and all the people who've just popped in to say hello over the years.
Thankfully I won't be saying goodbye to Wendy, who has kept me company and away from facebook so often in the past, as I'll be visiting her in her new studio, where we shall continue to throw paint around and talk about cake and ebay.

 packing boxes.....

So I'm having a farewell Open Studio all next week. I'll be displaying some of the illustrations I've done recently, and I'll have some paintings and cards for sale too. Pop in if you're passing, Jocks kettle is always on!