Great night last night at The Meenan Sisters private view down at Vyner Street Gallery. I had a jolly good time catching up with friends and I would like to say well done to all the artists who took part. Oh and also to Ivy who organised everything. Yes, I mean EVERYTHING. So thanks Ivy!!!
The show is running until tomorrow evening so get yourselves down there while you can.
I was approached by Amisha, organiser of Think Act Vote, to take part in a project based on quotes from renowned people. The quotes were about what kind of future they’d like to live in and then each illustrator would take a quote and illustrate it. It’ll be a book and I think it might be published some time next year. It was really good to be part of it as it made me think a lot! Basically there are no birds or bears in it! All will be revealed soon as I can’t show anything yet.
I’m also featured on the website so have a look here.
Amelia's Magazine: LFW Hermione de Paula (2010)
Amelia's Magazine: LFW Hermione de Paula (2010.)
What I Wore Today.
I’ve been keeping this hush, hush for the past few months but I’m pleased to announce that some of my fashion illustrations are featured in the Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration. My illustrations for the very popular project What I Wore Today is featured plus two illustrations for Amelia’s Magazine.
Martin Dawber contacted me through Flickr (this was more than a year ago by the way) and asked me if I wanted to be part of the book and naturally I said “Yes!” I recommend purchasing this book simply because the title itself is pretty self- explanatory. It is a BIG book. And it’s worth the money as well.
I’ve decided to work full time as an ABA Tutor only because I want to save up some pennies to buy a pug/ border terrier and a lovely big house. Also pay for some freakin’ driving lessons. I’m going to make the time to do illustration on the side now and will continue to run my Etsy Shop too.
I don’t feel like I’m ‘giving up’ illustration in any way and I’m pretty happy with my job anyway.
Last night Sam and I went along to Open Doors Private View Exhibition.We were, like, two hours late but our friends were nice enough to wait for us! Oh dear. Anyway our friend Fuad was exhibiting so it was great to see his work along with other super talented artists. Open Doors is a pop-up exhibition based on London boroughs, the current exhibition was based on W12 (yeah the Bush!) I didn’t expect it to be in someones house but I loved it because it felt very cosy and informal.
What I liked about Open Doors is that there’s a sense of community ethos. To see artists getting together and supporting the community, promoting the area, and seeing each artists interpretation of W12 there should be more things like this going on.
Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos because we were pretty late and by that time we said our hi’s and bye’s for the night! But Fuad took loads of photos so you can check them out via his Facebook Fan page here. Open Doors are on Twitter so make sure to follow them for the lastest news and updates about future events. If they ever pop round to the N4 area well I’m there for sure!
I have another exhibition review to write up but I need a cup of tea now. Have a lovely Saturday peeps!
