Check out August's Homes and Gardens for a lovely piece about Villa La Scale. Here you can see a shot of the living room featuring my gorgeous piece the Harbingers. I always feel a bit weird when I look at this photo as I love seeing...
Beauty is a dirty word in the art world. We're not meant to talk about it as it's a social construct. But I say f**k that, we can talk about it if we want to. And what's wrong with having it as an aim with your...
Blue For You, hand cut vintage map, pins. These birds are blue so you don't have to be. They are flying out of a map of the UK. They are currently on show at The Byre, read all about it here. The piece is 36 x 44 cm...
Yaaay it's my birthday today and I'm off celebrating. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow. cx...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...