| Finders Keepers Sydney |
This FRIDAY (6pm – 10pm) & SATURDAY (10am – 5pm)
245 Wilson St, Eveleigh @ the Carriageworks

I’ll be there selling my arty things, so if you’re in the neighborhood please come and say hi.
— So many other creatives that also have stalls too, can’t wait!

Thank you to everyone that came by my stall at the October Bowerbird Bazaar Markets. It was a super great market and I met some really great people even if it was a brief introduction, Megan Dell and Dawn Tan were among a few of the happy faces I met.

Jim Darling – Amazing art works.

Bears!

The most important thing ‘Do what you love doing‘

Starry Night Sky.

Don’t stare at it for to long.

Admiring the craftsmanship in this here hair – so intricate!

If your in Melbourne and you have some spare time come and see my store at the Design Made Trade market. The ‘trade’ side of the market is happening right now and finishes tomorrow. So if your an design entrepreneur come and see the wonderful wares on display. Otherwise it’s open to everyone from Saturday to Sunday 10am-5pm.

I was lucky enough to sneak away and have a look around this morning – Wow! there are some talented people out there. Here are some of my favourites just from my quick look around:

Right next door to my stall is the lovely Jessie Fairweather of Foundry. Her work is superb!

The wonderful Ink & Spindle who I met at Bowerbird earlier this year. Love their beautiful textiles!

Tom & I spent a little time over talking and being entertained by the troops at Shillington College. They even got us to confront our inner typeface by scrawling on an awesome carrier satchel – we got to keep it :)

I’m fortunate enough to look at Ari Prasetya’s inspirational reclaimed and rebuilt furniture from behind my storefront. Such beautiful work.

I loved Mrs Fairweather’s submission in the Treadlie bicycle exhibition. Look at those custom mud guards – epic!

Come and enjoy the market. Hope to see you there (here)! x

Leeloo is an online community for upcoming Australian designers and emerging artists to have a web based environment within which to sell their goodies whilst continuing their focus on their practice.  The web site can be found here : http://www.leeloo.com.au  We are based in Sydney, NSW, Australia and are a very small community business.
Words from here – indiegogo

Angela and Renee are two lovely ladies who avidly support our creative community. They have organised many exhibitions and supported many established and new upcoming talent. Drawn From Fashion is one of their most recent exhibitions and I had the pleasure of being one of the exhibitors.

They are trying there very most hardest to raise funds to get to the FIRST EVER ETSY CONFERENCE, which will be taking place in Berlin, Germany.

‘Hello Etsy: A Summit on Small Business and Sustainability is a hands-on gathering for small business owners who want to connect with their peers, learn the skills to find success and independence, and be part of the movement to build human scale-economies.’
Words from here – etsy

Just imagine the insight and knowledge that Angela and Renee will gain from attending. By supporting these two ladies you will be supporting Australia’s creative community.

Visit HERE to donate and help Angela and Renee get to Berlin.

Our trip to Launceston in April 2011.  Beautiful Waterfalls and tine-tiny mushrooms.
*Photography by Tom Fitzgerald.

Bowerbird Bazaar Markets. I met loads of lovely people. Thank you for all those that came by my stall on the day. You made participating in the markets, as a stall holder, a delight. x
1. The first photo is of me and my things. I think this was on the first day.
2. Stall holders, I unfortunately don’t know whom these stalls are as I never made it down that way as it was so packed. If anyone knows whom they are please let me know so I can credit them.
3. Bespoke letterpress – Had amazing gift cards and stationary, which I bought. Sisken behind Bespoke beautiful leather wears.
4. Mrs Fairweather’s bike emporium – AMAZING!
*Photography by Tom Fitzgerald.

While looking for inspiration for a project I stumbled across these amazing creations. I love the intricacy of lace and seeing it applied in such unique ways makes it even more fascinating –well  to me anyway!

1/. Valentino, spring 2011.
2/. Mario Martinez Pitarch.
3/. Prada.
4/. Joana Vasconcelos.

Winter Is Ending, 2010, 22 x 22 cm.
A bear cub has been awake for a while because something is tickling him. Maybe it is the spring.

Spring Is About to Happen, 2009, 15 x 14 cm.
Ink on paper. T-shirt illustration for Holmes.

Stollinn, 2009, 38 x 36 cm.
“Chair” mountain lies in the valley of Svarfaðardalur in Dalvík, Iceland. Sometimes it hides behind strong weather.

Apple Blossom Meadow, 2010, 31 x 36 cm.
Summer sounds like emerald green birch tree leaves,
snow as apple tree flowers and scent of clover.

I have a new art crush – Finland based illustrator Anna Emilia, works are beautiful have a look for yourself.

*It’s the second last day of my Etsy sale. All open edition prints are $21.00 normally $30.00. So if you want to purchase a bargain better get it now.

Since Lot No.1 and Lot No.2 were so successful, we have decided to put together a finale –
‘Lot No.3′
Many amazing artists have again generously donated artworks for the Art4Heart auction, bundles of amazing art & artists – Please support the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal by bidding on your favourite artwork.

Well I’ve been a busy bee with not much sleep happening here.
I mostly blame the silly goat that I can hear on the hills in the morning. He’s pretty noisy and very persistant with his goaty babbles so it’s hard to get any sleep around these hills. I hope someone throws him a sock to munch on soon as it’s getting a little overbearing.
I’ll even sacrifice a sock just to keep him quite.

- LOT 2 Bidding is OPEN -

You’ll all be please to know we’ve opened LOT 2 of the art4heart art auction.
We have some more wonderful art and artists participating in our auction.
For those that don’t know – we have created an art auction to raise some much needed money for those who have been affected by the Queensland floods.

100% of all proceeds raised will go directly to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.

Please visit www.art4heart.com.au if you’d like to bid on some rad arty things.
GOOD LUCK!

OR
If you’re just interested in making a donation please visit the
Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.
Every bit helps.

We managed to raise $2440.00 with LOT 1 WOW – It’s quite amazing.
A BIG BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE INVOLVED.
ARTISTS, BIDDERS and PROMOTERS for making this possible.

P.S Dear Goat – owner your goat makes a whole lot of goaty sounds in the morning. Please feed him some sock as I hear they like socks and this might keep him quite. That is all. x

We’ll this was the exciting news I had to share with you yesterday.
*Sorry it’s a day late there was so much to organise.

I’ve been busy organising this little event with all the other artists. We’ve created an art auction to raise some much needed funds for the QLD Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal. My design studio has also been helping us out with promotional material and design layouts for the blog.  Please go and have a look there is some amazing work up for Auction and it’s for a really good cause. Starts at 10:00am TODAY!

xxx

Go here to Bid! Bidding starts Tuesday 18th January 10:00am.
There’s some wonderful art and artists involved.
www.art4heart.com.au

- LET’S GET BIDDING -

Hello everyone I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. I certainly did relaxing and staying FAR away from client work. I got to focus on a couple of my own projects over the break it’s been refreshing picking them up again.

The image above is one of the projects that I had to postpone due to the madness before Christmas. This little guy is a Rufous Fantail and he’s going to be in a set of 4 which I am creating for the lovely Signed & Numbered shop I can’t wait to complete the rest.

On another note… Please visit next Monday as I have some rather exciting news that I’d like you all to be involved in. Stay Tuned as I wouldn’t want you to miss out. Have a great weekend

x