Le Book

Have I really only updated this blog a few times in the past year? That's pathetic. I really need to address that...I'm guessing it's because I get so caught up and involved in my work, that when I finish a project, usually that involves a mental break, so the last thing I normally want to do is blog about it.

I have some work that I'm advertising in Le Book (New York/Illustration edition), I actually didn't know a lot about it prior to this year (I've been known to have those "I just fell off the turnip truck" moments from time to time) but I just got it in the mail and WOW! What a beautiful compilation of eye candy to be inspired by!

It's a great big series of visual reference books, the London edition is designed by Vivienne Westwood this year, I'm in the New York edition that features art by the late Stephen Sprouse.

My artwork will be in Curvy 2009!

I am happy to announce that my artwork will be in Yen Magazine's Curvy book for 2009. This is a tremendous honor as they received close to 1600 submissions from 40 countries. Every year the magazine publishes a book featuring 100 female artists from around the world.

Work updates

I've updated my portfolio with a few works done in the last year. I'm really in desperate need of a new website for myself, something with a bit of a better portfolio format. But I guess this is better than no updates at all! Enjoy.

Prints available through CIA shop!

My London agent, Central Illustration Agency, now has a shop open online where you can buy prints, including one of mine, titled "Tigerlily."

I have quite a bit of new work that I will be adding to the site soon. As is, the last few months have been pretty stressful with my September wedding. Following the wedding, I was so exhausted I just wanted to sit and stare at the ceiling, and basically not think for about six weeks. But as is, I've managed to keep the work going as it keeps on coming, and for this I am very grateful.



Lately I've been continuing work through an exciting poster series with Kübler Absinthe. That's right, for those not in the know, absinthe is now legal once again in the U.S. Let the madness begin again!

Quite a weekend

Last weekend was very involved for me. I had some artwork as part of Loveart University of the Arts London's exhibition at Lovebox, one of London's biggest summer music festivals featuring musicians like Groove Armada, Goldfrapp, and Flaming Lips.

Last Friday I also had artwork on display as part of a visual show and backdrop for close friend and talented songstress extraordinaire, Katy Carr, who put on a wonderful show at the Royal Opera House. I have done the artwork for her upcoming album, Coquette.



Later on this fall I will have some work as part of an exhibition being put on by my agent, CIA (Central Illustration Agency). They recently moved and now are located right next to Piccadilly Circus right off of Regent Street in just about the coolest area ever. Literally. Just a floor or two above the famous Absolute Ice Bar. Where you can hang out in a bar that is completely housed in and made of Swedish ice. And it's right down the street from Liberty! Mmmmm. Liberty.

Here's some more information about LoveBox:

LoveArt will be a visualization of LoveBox itself. It will connect the performance element of the festival to the arts element. For its first year, LoveArt have commissioned 21 of the very best emerging artists to create works inspired by the festival. This could be a particular song, a lyric, an artist's performance or indeed, the overall Lovebox experience. The artworks will be completely individual but unified by their shared subject matter, the medium upon which they are printed and their size, which will be A2. Each piece will be available for purchase in a strictly limited edition
print run of 25 and will be sold for £195.00, unframed, each.

LoveArt has been put together by three key curators; Alex Watt, a media lawyer who works regularly with fine artists. Over the past year has been working with MurderMe (Damian Hirst's company). Before working as a lawyer he set up UrbanScrawl a company to create and promote graffiti art within advertising and media. Justin Hammond, Director of My Life In Art www.mylifeinart.com, a contemporary art gallery in Broadway Market, East London. The gallery is devoted to exhibiting emerging artists and hosts The Catlin Art Prize, an annual event showcasing the pick of recent art school graduates. Medeia Cohan-Petrolino is Assistant Curator for the University of the ArtsLondon where she collaborates on exhibitions in the University's Mayfair gallery space, manages the University's 600 plus piece collection and advises for many of the UK's top collectors.

The works will be mounted, framed and hung within the LoveArt Arena and will form the exhibition itself. This will be the perfect opportunity for all budding art collectors and Lovebox fans to be able to buy works by some of the UK's finest up and coming artists and in doing so take a bit of Lovebox home with them. This is set to be an annual event, to support and highlight some of the art world's top emerging talents.

Featured Artists: Ben Backhouse, Mike Ballard, Adam Brigland, Susan Burghart, Chu, Chuck Elliot, Stevie Gee, Angelique Houtkamp, Helen Ingham, Nathan James, Alex Latsis, Ben Long, Kate Marshall, Ashley Miller, James Musgrave, Christian Newton, Edd Pearman, Rai Royal, Christian Statham, Shok1, Snug.

EDTN. GOLDEN BROWN SHOW IN LONDON

I have some artwork that is going to be in a show on Brick Lane if anyone is in that neck of the woods. I should come up with some kind of "cool" short nickname...my regular name sort of sticks out like a sore thumb. Hee hee.



About:
A group exhibtion to celebrate and showcase the artists that have graced the pages of edtn. so far, and to launch our Summer issue (Issue 03).

Artists include:
Adolfo Serra, Beastman, Susan Burghart, Cultural Urge, Fidia, Haw, Christey Joh, Jumbo, Junior, Kronk, Miss Led, McBess, Mephisto Jones, Drew Millward, Mr Penfold, Pit, Skaffs, Reka, Teck 1, Yok

Location:
Bodhi Gallery, 214 Brick Lane, London, E1 6SA, UK. (map)

Dates:
13th - 18th of June 2008 (11am - 5pm)

Opening Night:
12 June 2008 (6-9pm)

For more, visit the EDTN. website.

It's a great day for hockey.

I have a confession to make. Okay, it isn't much of one to anyone who knows me. But... I love hockey.

Yes. I love hockey.

I can't really explain how I came about getting into hockey. (Ice hockey, to be specific.) I didn't grow up in a hockey dominated area, though I did drag my friends and family to a lot of Western Hockey League games. I like the sport because it's still got a bit of a misfit underground feel to it, at least in America. It is an exciting, faced paced game, and the sounds of the sticks, skates and the smell of the ice just make it awesome. Not to mention those spooky-ass goalie masks, especially the old school ones. Every year, I try to make a point of seeing at least one live hockey game, be it major league or minor league. Now that I'm permanently living in Europe, I catch them when visiting my fiance's family in Sweden.

I have followed Pittsburgh Penguin hockey for years now. In fact, I will own up to my past of teenage fan art, courtesy of the awesome RJ Ackerman at letsgopens.com -- he still keeps up some artwork that I did when I was about 19 years old. It does support the theory that artists DO get better at their craft with age. Mario or Jaromir (back when he was in Pittsburgh and had that awesome mullet...) ASCII art anyone? In my defense, I was practically a kid and it was the mid 90s. I think they were meant to be tongue in cheek, though I did have someone actually email me and tell me that those pictures were an embarrassment to Penguins hockey.

Things seem more upbeat this year, just a couple of days before the Pens were on the verge of sweeping the Ottawa Senators, I made a spoof logo with the Penguins classic logo...(SO glad they got rid of the Bank Penguin Logo...that was just bad news) but instead of the hockey stick, I gave the penguin a broom. I posted it on myspace and sent it along to some other fellow Penguin fans.

This is the thing that really freaks me out about the internet.

This:


Became THIS.


A getty images news photograph posted on Yahoo news. So, to the random Penguins fan in Ottawa that used my little spoof artwork, thanks for the laugh and rock on, dude. It's like I was there in spirit.





P.S. And if anyone has spare tickets to the fall game in Stockholm, email me!!!