You have to be a seriously grande dame to be known simply as ‘La Palucca’. Dance in the 1920s in Europe underwent something of a revolution. With bauhaus emerging, the idea of breaking from the convention was ready to take flight. Gret Palucca felt constricted […]
Ana Laguna is smoking, but in more ways than one. Her Carmen, choreographed by her husband Mats Ek was electrifying, as she stomped and charmed cigar in mouth. Maybe she was a particularly apt choice for the role, her Spanish roots at the heart of […]
I attended a workshop by paper artist extraordinaire Jessica Palmer at the weekend. Papercutting has been high on my list of interest for a while – there are so many amazing, creative, delicate things out there, that I was itching to have a go but didn’t […]
The thing with creative fun is that it can take you in unexpected places… this is certainly the case for me with my latest obsession: domino pendants. It’s a pretty well travelled craft road, and Etsy is full of them – but the common factor […]
Jill contacted me through Etsy to create a portrait for her family – she knew she wanted it in her kitchen and that it had to pop! Jill sent me lots of pictures of her lovely family, we discussed how they would appear and what […]
These deep box frames have been a great way to create these family dioramas – adding a bit of background/ depths to family portraits – this one was for Andrew’s birthday from his family 🙂
Happy new year! It’s been a while since the last cat cover and it was high time to remedy that… And of course with a sad anniversary to mark, Bowie it had to be… What I love about doing the cat covers is that you […]
Latest Etsy commission, this time for Abby in Cambridge! The idea was to capture a happy time for this gorgeous family, including nods to some more or less obvious likes and hobbies – from gardening to mermaids, history books and Pinot Grigio, there is definitely […]
Another lovely brief all the way from Melbourne this time! This was a present from Nina to her husband Todd on his 40th birthday from which was just a couple of days ago!! The family loves nothing more than an outing on their bikes in […]
More fascinating ladies of dance… Alicia probably wouldn’t have believed she would ever turn into a splendid she-cat for Balanchine as a star of the Ballets Russes. For a start, she was born Lily Marks, a jewish girl from Finsbury Park in North London. She […]
Celebrating Vita’s birthday with a nod to her favourite series of books!
Back to my heroines of contemporary dance – this time we’re not talking meak flower on the wall of dance history, but tackling the uber influential Martha Graham – we are talking THE mother of modern dance. She believed in the deep meaning of movement […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 