YSP

We took a day trip to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park last Friday. It was a beautiful autumnal day, quite busy and I was surprised how much it has changed since my last visit as an art student nearly 20 years ago! Swanky new visitors center, shop and restaurant etc..all very nice - and still populated by art students looking introspectively tortured... that was me that was ;) 

 

We ended the day with a Yummy Yorkshire ice cream in the cafe, Lou's Liquorice comes highly reccomended.

100% Design

A friend is presenting some of her work at 100% Design, as part of this years London Design Festival. She works in experimental textiles as a surface pattern designer, and spent some time teaching with me at London Met - A very talented artist, so please check out some of their work and if in London, visit Tactile Wonderland at the exhibition (register for free entry below) :

We are pleased to announce that we will be presenting our latest creations at 100% Design from the 22nd to the 25th of September 2011 as part of the London Design Festival. Renowned for our hand silk printed fabric wallcoverings with intricate laser cut detailing, we will be unveiling an enticingly new mural design. Inspired by Delft tile motifs of flora and fauna with laser cut feathers that come away from the wall to reveal peek-a-boo glimpses of colour. Alongside this we will also be exhibiting our first digitally printed wallpaper collection and homeware range for 2011 – Petit Tactile – in an intriguing space that can only be described as an interior wonderland. 

 

To find out more on what we will be exhibiting please go to our blog http://tactilewonderland.blogspot.com/2011/09/tactile-wonderland-100-design-22-25.html  

To register for free entry please click on this link http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/tactile

 

Victorian Winter

'Victorian Winter' .. a great name for a 80's Goth band (any fledgling Emo's can have that one for free)  :) But it's also how we spent our summer this year in Melbourne, Victoria. And with it being an Australian winter, it wasn't that bad at all! When not out with family, we were able to spend some time looking around some of the vintage stores of Brunswick St and Daylesford (apparently ranked No.1 'Funkiest town' to Hebden's 4th place.. Ahem, ..I beg to differ) and have a couple of short road trips to South Australia (where we came across, what the owner/artist described as 'Wolf Creek' sculpture park) and to the Grampians, where we saw the most fantastic night skies.

So a few holiday picks below, those of a more cynical disposition may turn way! Back to the grind and getting on with making:)