Doing collage for all this time I've got pretty good at cutting up books but sometimes, out of the blue, I just don't manage.
This morning I was unexpectedly seduced by Inside Churches. I don't know why it pleases me quite so much to know the names for obscure cruciforms but it does, Inside Churches is a keeper for sure.
I want to share just a few of the best pages with you
First up crosses. Milrine, Fleuree, Barbee, Crenelee.
Please, choose your favourite and name your hipster coffee shop after it. Or indeed hipster baby.
For me: Bezant.
In case you're ever at a loss for conversation on your next date or whatever I think what's your favourite type of column? Is one of the most exciting questions a person can ask.
If your date answers Doric I'd say they're pretty chic, probably marriage material.
If they say Ionic I'd say, they're a fun, outgoing person. Prepare to party.
If they answer composite they are 100% an awful psychopath. Get out of there.
I very much subscribe to the idea that you can't teach children art.
I see myself as a studio technician when it comes to the kid's art. Recently I gave them free rein of all the offcuts of wood in the garage for painting on.
The results were so lovely, they're propped up all around the house.
This Little Furniture Stack collage is now available as a print!
When I came to photograph it it sat perfectly in my house, stacks of things and domesticity everywhere.
Here it is on top of the piano with all the books and a piece of charmingly painted bark.
And in the studio with all the detritus including some of my sons influence - a bean bag and at the right a game that involves a target and pins
You can buy the print, framed or unframed, in the shop now.
This is happening on Saturday!
And yes that is my work on the poster, what a darned privilege.
Garden Folk is a wonderful enterprise run by great people. Head to their website and buy their greeting cards to support the cause if you can't make it.
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