All posts tagged: illustration
Marburg leaf dog
Spent a weekend in super lovely Marburg with old and new friends – met this fellow on the way, he decided to leave us at the castle to my girl’s dismay, but at least we kept a souvenir…
Toy tortoise
This is the tiniest tortoise alive, and possibly the prettiest… It also lives in our very English gardens, but disguises itself cleverly as a lovely flowering bunch. This clever ruse allows entire colonies to exist right under our unsuspecting noses…
Clover Carnation Casperina
And it of course works very well as a fabulous headpiece…
Carnation Ginger Rogers
I thought she was a little bit Ginger Rogers like…When you peel back the closed leves at the base of a carnation, this is what happens… it fans out in the most beautiful way…
Going down to Carnation street
It’s the summer solstice today, and we went to a wonderful Scandinavian Summer Fayre, with maypole dancing, elderflower flowing, and many a flower wreath. A few buds fell out and my daughter was quick to spot and get them. And so we celebrated the event […]
Hiss ‘n’ purr with the Modern Meowers (feline homage to Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers)
As discussed previously, Jonathan Richman rules my world. On the principle that he’s just a big blouse of happy, I even started my own version of 100 days of happy with #100daysofJonathanRichman on Twitter to celebrate how good he makes me feel. And so a cat […]
Interview in Belgium on the importance of cat art
In 2013, following my involvement in the Meow exhibition, I was interviewed by a journalist from Le Vif l’Express, one of the major French language national paper in Belgium (a bit like the Observer here) about the place of cats in art and specifically album covers […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 