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A Rubbish Fairy

20 November 2010

This week has been somewhat hectic as I am preparing to do a full week of teaching art workshops next week and the preparation work has been something to behold!

However, time is marching on so I have also made a start on my latest Rubbish Picture. Another commission for Christmas. The brief this time: to create some bespoke ‘nursery art’ to go onto a little girls bedroom wall and to be made entirely out of bits and pieces of domestic rubbish, relevant to her. This fairy, therefore,  consists of wrappers from her favourite snacks, gift wrapping from her birthday presents, ribbons & sequins, as well of course, as a good dollop of prerequisite fairy dust obviously…

It’ll soon be dry and finished. Here’s hoping she enjoys it!

Nursery Art – A Bespoke Rubbish Rabbit

10 November 2010

This week I have been creating a new Rubbish Picture. I was asked to create this one to be a gift for a new baby girl, to be hung in the proud family’s beautiful newly decorated and prepared nursery. Rubbish Pictures always seem to be popular as Nursery Art, particularly the animals designs, so I was delighted to be commissioned. What made this project stand out even more, was the challenge of creating a character entirely from the bits and pieces of packaging and wrappings that the baby girl’s first gifts were presented to her in.

It’s the kind of thing that you hate, as a new parent, to throw away, but can’t possibly keep or you’d end up with bags of ‘memories’ absolutely everywhere by the time your child starts school! This use of them, to create some personal, relevant, art for the child to keep and treasure long term is a lovely idea that I truly hope will catch on. Bespoke Rubbish Pictures, I think, is definitely the way to go….

A new rubbish hare

29 September 2010

Today I finished a new Rubbish Picture. This time it’s a hare, as I tend to favour hares and other miscellaneous field and woodland creatures recently…. and as ever, it’s entirely made of recycled domestic rubbish. This friendly little beastie owes it’s autumnal tones, to a teabag box, some wallpaper sample left overs, cereal packaging and a magazine article about redheads. The background is created out of a discarded Boden catalogue and some frozen peas packaging.

As soon as his glue is dried, he’ll be added to my online shop over at Folksy which has been looking a little bare of late and needs some restocking! Watch this space, more rubbish in the pipeline…

Churning out more rubbish…

03 August 2010

I’ve been quiet on the Rubbish Pictures front recently and my Folksy shop, it has to be said, is looking a little bare with only 2 pictures currently for sale… so it’s been nice to have been recently asked to contribute some ‘Rubbish Art’ for a new UK Crafts / Gallery  style shop which will be opening this September in York. Besides giving me a good incentive to crack on and create some more pictures out of completely recycled discarded household materials, this has been a good opportunity for me to research ideal subjects and likely target audiences… For the first time I’ll be targeting tourists and so I’m going to have some fun with some ‘Great Britain’ cliche’s and see what happens…. Watch this space for more info as the series of pictures which will be winging their way up to York next month, progress’s…

A Rubbish Popcorn Dog

04 December 2009

In the midst of the crazy pre Christmas season, This week there has been a little beam of sunshine in the form of a project commissioned for the aptly named ‘Sonny’.
This latest Rubbish Picture has been created to commemorate the naming ceremony of the very gorgeous young man whose face can be seen peeking through the camouflage of blue hues in the background.
Rubbish Dog is made out of popcorn wrappings, (just the right shade of brown) a Fat Face Christmas gift catalog and appropriately, a bag of Wagg Dog food. The background consists of packaging; from tea bags, Marks & Spencers Salt and Vinegar crisps, Rich Tea biscuits and some random NHS Swine Flu leaflets which the paper boy obviously got bored with delivering and just shoved in their entirety through my door instead.

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