Craft fairs and new additions to Polka Dot Cloud

Here are a few images of the more recent craft fairs I've been at and with a few more new members to the family too.....

The Little loveable monsters, small enough to fit into your pocket, but big enough to give a lot of love to!

Cecil the Story telling Cat (Finger puppet, and gateway to the hugest of imaginations)

Cecil likes to keep everyone company, he has a huge imagination, and lots of little cat friends as you can see. his imagination is huge, and he just loves to listen to your stories...and best of all, he's small enough to fit in your pocket and go with your everywhere!

The little Lollipop heads, and how cute are these little guys and gals? Obviously their favourite food is....lollipops - any flavour will do these little mischievous little things.

The Fairytale fair in Patcham methodist Church, Brighton, Feb 2013 

Art Junky 11, March 2013

Sole Searching

Sole Searching: The Point of Possession

The non-essential objects of desire we decorate our every day live with, pay homage to the experiences we have had more often than not. The souvenirs from holidays, trinkets from loved ones, they all hold a value, whether it be sentimental or monetary.

There is an art to being a consumer. The psychological interaction with the things we buy, is more in depth or enlightening than we first might think.

For example our individual psychographics, and our attitudes towards the point of possession. Emotional shopping.  A very dangerous territory, you can get it so right and you can get it so wrong. I have made some of the worst...no courageous, actually no; deluded decisions of my life in sales departments.

 I’m a bit of a magpie, anything that sparkles get my full undivided attention, and I have a lot of collections… of lots of different things, and most of the collections at points have spiralled out of control. Or been left when the burning desire resided, then reignited upon a trip to the loft on a rainy day...

This series of mono prints is a celebration of the shoe collection I own to date. At the point of beginning the series there were 50 pairs.  They have helped to illustrate some of the most interesting and thought provoking times in my adult life. Happy, sad, amusing or hair raising each pair has a tale or two to tell.  My work is narrative and the use of mono print for this series helps to encapsulate and immortalise the essence of the sentiments behind the shoes. They act as an aide memoire, almost like a photo album, with the process of mono print, they have been extracted from reality somewhat and into an whimsical world of their own.