Yorkshire

Last week I stayed in a cottage for a few days near Settle in Yorkshire. It was such a lovely holiday as I was outside so much walking and enjoying the countryside. It made a great change from sitting in my studio (my room) all cooped up with about a whole house worth of stuff in one room with me.

I took some photos to hopefully use as a bit of inspiration for some drawing, the colours alone make me excited to do something based on the images. I love the dark and gloomy looking grey skies contrasted with the burnt orange and murky greens of the hills. Here's a selection of the photos, I started to use a giant roll of paper as a new sort of sketchbook today so hopefully I can use it to capture some elements of from the photos, I've already been playing around with some inky dry stone wall paintings.

ContainerPlus ME

Last week I made the big (not really) journey down to London to go and see ContainerPlus for some tea, cake and creative talk. I was very nervous for absolutely no reason as it was all very casual and friendly and Luise and Patricia were both absolutely wonderful. There were 3 other guests graphic designer Deniz Gustavsson Atasel and duo Kerry Hughes and Katie Macgregor (also known as Forager) it was great to show my portfolio to some new faces and meet some new and exciting creative people!

Here are some photos (taken from the ContainerPlus blog)

Luise showed us the ContainerPlus portfolio which was huge but also amazing and full of projects I would love to work on! A very lovely trip. Also see my Barbican blog post in my journal blog.