Shadow Puppets

This photo is from a selection I took experimenting with shadow puppetry under my dining room table for the Cabaret project.

If you'd like to see the rest, I've got them on my Flickr account here.

The Ten Things (The last five)

6. Tim Walker (Photographer)

I particuarily like Tim Walker's work because of the sense of story telling and the surreal, dream like quality of the images he produces. He is mainly a fashion photogrpher, but his concentration is often not so much on the clothes but on the feeling created by the setting, props and clothing combined.

7. Peter Blake

Peter Blake's work always inspires me to to something with my massive collections of things. I love the way his works seem to preserve and document the past.

8. Lothar Baumgarten, Culture - Nature

I haven't researched this artist much, but this image always makes me think of discovering hidden or lost things. I am constantly inspired by the idea of 'treasures' or discoveries.

9. Robert Rauschenberg, Minutae (1954)

Rauschenberg's work is always a collage of either silkscreen prints, paper and objects or both. To me, his works are like huge scrapbooks documenting a journey, a thought, a mood or an emotion.

10. Kay Neilsen, An illustration from East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Throughout my life, the thing that has most often inspired me are the illustrations of fairy tales. When i was little, they completed the story for me and inspired me to draw princesses in beautiful dresses. This interest in costume and fanatasy is still evident in a lot of my work.

The 10 Things (The First Five)

1. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Birds) 1942
Cornell is one of my favourite artists, his work facinates me. I love the way his boxes seem like tiny worlds.

2. Su Blackwell
Su Blackwell is an artist who i discovered about two years ago, she creates wonderful artwork by cutting scenes and objects out of books. The books she uses are often children's fiction and the work is based on the story. She literally brings the story to life.

3. Glinn Burt, Moscow School 1963

What I like about this photograph, is that for me, it captures childhood perfectly - for children, the universe is about as unrealted to you as the politics of your country, they are just words you hear in school.

4. Anne Frank's Dairy

On a holiday to Amsterdam, I visited the Anne Frank house. They had her original diary on show, and everytime i see this postcard, it makes me want to start a scrap book. In a way, this is what i wish all my sketchbooks looked like.

5.Margret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn, Vernal Hanging-Parrot

This image is more for the type of illustration rather than the artist herself. I love old natural history illustations. They are almost a lost art nowadays and I am facinated by thier intricacy. I bought a book called Birds, The Art of Ornithology when I was on holiday this year, which this image is from.