20 Jul Le Weekend
What do you get up to at the weekend? I've realised that I quite like doing not much. After my pilates class on a Saturday morning, which is non negotiable, I like to relax at home and that's pretty much me for the rest of the...
17 Jul This Our Freedom
This is Our Freedom - a new piece that I made by transforming 2 maps from a vintage atlas. It's an atlas from the 1930's and it's fascinating because you can see the changing times written large on the map. It is so fascinating to get a...
15 Jul The fire within
The Fire Within - hand cut from a vintage Polisih world atlas, framed in a Victorian entomology box. This beauty is 3 pieces layered up and it really reminded me of a fire when I'd finished it. The intensity of the red and the blue are like...
14 Jul Capturing The Changing Times
I've made something new. It's made from 5 paper cuts. Each one cut from a map of the former USSR from a vintage Polish world atlas given to me recently by my lovely friend Yvonna. The atlas is so beautiful, the colours of the maps are so...
13 Jul Marcin Rusak – 2015 Winner PJ Arts Salon Award – exhibition
Marcin Rusak was the very worthy winner of the 2015 Perrier Jouet Art Salon Prize (you can read about the judging here). The exhibition is at Contemporary Applied Arts until 1 August and is well worth a trip. All the details are on the Contemporary Applied Arts...
09 Jul Somethings you might not know about me
Some things you might know about me: 1. I'm actually afraid of birds, well mostly of London pigeons, they are such bullies and so dirty. 2. I used to sign my name with a Japanese symbol when I was a teenager. 3. My go to guilty pleasure TV...
08 Jul Studio Tidying part 2
My project to tidy and de clutter my studio is going well. Though there still seems a lot to do it feels a lot clearer now. The next jobs are going through all my bits of paper and clearing some of them out. This is...
06 Jul Japanese Paper
I'm a bit of a stationery freak so I made sure to research the best stationery shops in Tokyo before I went. One of which is Ito-Ya. I went to their main shop in Ginza. It was truly amazing, 6 floors of stationery heaven. I spent...
01 Jul tidying my studio
I work from home, which is many ways is really great. No commute, I can work in my pj's etc. And mostly I love it, but sometimes my work takes over (or feels like it). I sometimes feel like I can't breath and think. This...
29 Jun Faces from Japan
Following from my previous posts (here and here) about faces that are inspiring me. I'm still waiting for the way I'm going to use them in my work is going to come out. At the moment the ideas are buzzing around and I know at...