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Scarpes Diem

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Being out in nature proves a bit challenging lately. Luckily, I found the ancient technique of paper marbling, that allows for replicating some of the randomness and underlying order that exists in nature. As well as the vibrant greens of spring that make me so happy! 🤸🏻‍♀️🌱

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Soar is Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita’s enchanting string encounter. The middle ground between Wells and Senegal. Both virtuoso respectively of the classical harp and the kora. It is weaving magic of a music. 

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Grayson Perry’s Art Club on Channel 4. How to stay human during challenging times, and not to lose heart. Which is of course what art is all about, one of it’s tasks anyway.

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I love Grayson Perry's anthropological Art Club on Channel 4. It's about how to stay human during lockdown, and not to lose heart. Which is of course what art is all about, one of it's tasks anyway.

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El Anatsui is, in my opinion, one of the most significant artists working today. The large-scale sculptures, made from thousands of used aluminium bottle tops, reminiscent of golden mosaics, and hung in a *fabric-like manner, all tell different stories. His enigmatic ability to collect the developed world’s waste, transforming it into these mesmerising sculptures, which end up back in the developed world’s biggest cultural cathedrals to be admired. Such Awe!

“The amazing thing about working with these metallic ‘fabrics’ is that the poverty of the materials used in no way precludes the telling of rich and wonderful stories” El Anatsui

*His father was a traditional weaver from Ghana where Anatsui is also based. 

(photos are from the October Gallery in London)

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Landscaping

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Sketching outside.♡ #letsdothiseveryweekend 

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Tom Eckersley’s work from the 1970s’ and 80s’. Graphic artist and educator, he’s a pioneer in early poster art. ♡

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Just finished a short class of painting textures. Really enjoyed doing the iris study - it felt like diving into a small-scale galaxy. ♡

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Jon Klassen drawing a dog.

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Pysanka from Ukraine. 

The tradition of egg decoration in Slavic cultures originated in pagan times, and was transformed by the process of religious syncretism into the Christian Easter egg. Nevertheless, these decorated eggs have retained much of their pagan symbolism.

Many Slavic ethnic groups, including the Belarusians (пісанка, pisanka), Bulgarians (писан�� яйце, pisano yaytse), Croats (pisanica), Czechs (kraslice), Poles (pisanka), Serbs (pisanica), Slovaks (kraslica), Slovenes (pisanica, pirhi or remenke), Sorbs (jejka pisać) and Ukrainians (писанка, pysanka) decorate eggs for Easter. Many of the names derive from the Slavic root pisa which relates to painting (and cognate with Latin pictura). In Slavic tradition, the egg (similar to icons) is written, not drawn or painted. This is a Central and Eastern European and not strictly Slavic tradition, since non-Slavic ethnic groups in the area also practice it: Hungarians (hímestojás), Lithuanians (margutis), and Romanians (ouă vopsite, incondeiate or impistrite)).

via Wikipedia

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lovely wet on wet ink technique from Helen Dealtry

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I recently rediscovered the joy of painting with watercolours. So I’ll be posting my little pictures here, starting with this whale! : ) 

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Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

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Lovely 2012 calendar by Barcelona based design studio Lo Siento. 

Each of the polyhedrons has different number of faces, corresponding with the number or each month.