From the blog:
I'm still here
About five years ago The New Craftsmen asked me to make some videos about my work for their social media.
I made this. And a small series of these type of videos.
I still think it's great.
They asked me to make something more befitting of a high end gallery.
Better Out Than In
I love my Better Out Than In collage, it reminds me of my darling grandmama. She was an artist with a filthy sense of humour and a subversive outlook - she lived a bohemian and wild existence in a clapboard house just outside Hemel Hempstead.
She channeled a lot of rage and life happenings into her art and when they came out crooked and angry looking she'd say -
better out than in.
And I just love that.
I take the message as an encouragement to express myself, not to hold things in. Some people might be good at holding things in - but for me I need to share, to express myself.
Feelings and farts.
After I made this very important, heartfelt artwork that speaks to my ancestry and personal heritage someone told me that it would be 'great hung in the downstairs loo' . . .
And I couldn't help but agree! I thought more people should be able to have this message on their wall so I made a very reasonably priced poster, it's in the shop, you should buy it.
It's got to be the most best downstairs loo artwork available on the market today, I very much approve of this angle and I think so too would my dear grandmama.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year mine cherubs.
I hope you had a wonderful one, I've enjoyed being in amongst the chaos of two small children.
I've finally found some ground with my art after endless house renovations (totally worth it though, check out my sink, it even makes an eggy plate looks glorious).
I'm making work every day and it is a blessed relief. I can't wait to show you more.
There are new prints standing all around my studio which will be heading into the shop soon . . .
Like this vessels print, I've managed to get the colour really true to the original, a delicate yet punchy lilac/blue.
While we're talking shop . . . I have a framed print of my Little Furniture Stack to give away!
It's ready to hang and looks equally good in a tidy or messy home (pictured below).
If you would like to win all you have to do is join my mailing list using the right hand column sign-up.
To improve your chances of winning you could try doing some manifesting or charge your crystals in the moonlight.
I'll draw a name at random next week.
(See all the details of the artwork here)
Merry Christmas one and all
Merry Christmas Mine Dumpling Loves!
Thanks to everyone who squished in a print purchase in time for Christmas, it was so lovely to see the sales come in. I'm excited to be adding more to the shop next year along with some other bits too.
I'm really grateful so many of you attended this website, what a buzz!
Now we slope away for some festive stupor.
I hope you have a lovely time.
I will be partaking of too many of the best ever crisps (I promise you, you have to try them) washed down with Snowballs; I make mine with tonic instead of lemonade - much more delicious.
Princess Maggie has some special food which she will either totally ignore or gobble and throw up on the doormat, she's a complex woman and I wouldn't have her any other way.
See you next year!
Wild Women Prints
I've made A3 posters of these collages, available in the shop now!
I love my flashing women. Underneath those voluminous skirts they're both blowing raspberries, just FYI.
I don't want to say much more about them, apart from that I made them at a similar time to my NO collages and they have a similar energy. I wanted to make posters of them so more people could enjoy a bit of that energy in their home.
You can pin them up or they would also look nice in these frames; I'm thinking one each side of your bed would be great.
Jo Waterhouse is a celebrated collage artist known internationally for her playful and anarchic style. About→