Monday, May 13, 2013 Mum at the Oxford Botanic Gardens

A follow up to my last post about my ma, as it's US Mother's Day today. My lovely mum has been exhibiting her work at the Oxford Botanic Garden. The show just finished, and these are a few photos I just got developed. They're grainy and don't do the work justice (expired film) but boy, these paintings look good.

Sunday, May 5, 2013 New York Stories: Steam Pipe

Can't believe I'm putting my bare bum on the internet. Sorry, everyone.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013 New York Stories : Free Pizza

My heart is yours if you're offering free cheese-on-bread product.

Monday, April 29, 2013 Ceramics For Sale

At last! I put my ceramics in my shop. It only took, y'know, six months or so. But I finally have enough of them that I like, and feel like I'm going to be able to make more that I like - so it seemed like the right time. Check it out here!
A few of the cats have already found new homes, but more are on the way - the wheel keeps on turnin'.

Monday, April 22, 2013 Datter in DPI Magazine

This was pretty exciting. I was asked to do an interview for DPI, a Taiwanese magazine. They've featured a ton of artists that I love, so it was great to be included. And boy, were they speedy - only a couple weeks from my answering the questions, to the magazine coming through my mailbox. If you'd like to read my answers, you can see gigantic images of the pages here: page 1 and page 2. And check out the cat making her editorial debut!

Friday, April 19, 2013 Up in flames

Making things burn. Fire, fire.

Sunday, April 14, 2013 Ceramics en masse

Been photographing my ceramics finally (coming to the store soon!). My brother came over to help me out and snapped these pictures. They make me laugh, he's photographed them like they're real little characters. Smart boy.

Here's the whole pile of clay pieces on my dining table, waiting to be photographed.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 NY Stories: Rude hamsters

My god, hamsters do get up to the darndest things.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Cutting social security

A super-quick-turnaround drawing for the NYTimes letters page yesterday. Letters responding to an article about proposed cuts to social security. Rather timely given that yesterday a barrage of benefit cuts came into place in the UK, heralding the apocalypse we've all been waiting for.*

In print the drawing is teeny-wee, but you can read the letters and see the drawing (again) online here.

*Those cuts, combined with the whole goodbye-gulf-stream-hello-eternal-winter situation, mean it might be time to up sticks to Cali. For the entire population of the UK. Get ready, In-N-Out!

Friday, March 29, 2013 Maize maze

Since Spring is nearly here, it's time for a post about Autumn. Back in October, I was in NYC, and some friends and I drove upstate to a farm for FALL MADNESS. It was as it promised: mad. I fired a corn cannon, a pumpkin slingshot, watched a pig race, and saw kids playing in a giant shed filled with 3 feet of dried corn kernels. Apple cider and ornamental gourds were also involved. It was all deeply American (except for the pig race, which I've seen in the UK too), not least the landscape. Look at this place. These are photos from the Maize Maze and the Pumpkin Patch. Alliteration is a big deal in fall.

Strange seeing these after 5 months of grim, grey UK days. I can't believe I've ever seen skies this blue.

I thought I might've just posted the arty shots above but no, fuck it, if you're anything like me you also wanna see the pig race and the bizarre gourd pile and the angel deer straight from a heaven whose nose I touched and it was soft. See below.

Thursday, March 28, 2013 New York Stories: English

New York Stories returns! I only had to take, like, eight months off to get back into the project. I kept a huge list of things-that-happened-in-NYC while I was there, and now I've been away for a while, the urge to record them is kicking back in. New York, you are a good time.

Saturday, March 23, 2013 Pharmacy

Stocking the medicine cabinet for all possible eventualities.

Sunday, March 10, 2013 Mum's studio

It's mother's day, which seems a good time to post these photographs. I took them at my mum's open studio a few months ago. She's a painter, with an incredible eye for pattern and colour - not to mention, y'know, an amazing mum and general badass powerful woman. So this is a tiny tribute to her and her work. Here you go. Thanks for everything, mamma.

You can see more of her work on her website, chloefremantle.com. When I look at it I actually can't believe how prolific she is. Somebody give this woman a contract to design all the textiles, art, and wallpaper for a palace somewhere.

Here's another photo from her studio building: it's huge, but I like it. The shared phone in the corridor between many studios. Evidence that artists work here.

Saturday, February 23, 2013 Covering

Drawing exercises. Covering part of face. Though the last one just looks like she's smelling her fingers. What of it.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013 Boot bud vase

I'm figuring out ceramics little more each time, getting them to look more how I want. Wax resist on these laces so the raw clay shows through. This is kind of a companion to the twig boot.