Eliza is our sweet sweet sweet goddaughter. Aged two and a bit, whenever she saw a kangaroo, she would exclaim:’babbit!!’ And so it was that she had to be given her very own one…
Author: karuski
Dean and family
a family portrait with a very young baby – it felt right to have them all huddled together – reflecting the special closeness we feel when a new person joins a family and makes it complete…
My family portraits shown in Born, Stoke Newington!
I have been given a fantastic opportunity to show my work in Born – a family/ baby shop where I live in Stoke Newington. This is the first time that my family portraits get an airing outside of the digital world, and I am absolutely […]
More Michael Stipe – from the vaults
Yes, I truly was a huge REM fan… Unearthed teenage drawing from 1991.
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Another one from the vaults, I did like the band enough, but loved the pic more. Can’t find the original, but likely to have featured in what was THEN the best music mag on the planet, French monthly Les Inrockuptibles. It’s now shortened to Les […]
Anthonin Artaud
You want to be hip by being ‘au fait’ with avant-garde French penseurs, you know your Sartre from your Camus, your Duchamp from your Vian, the 20th century of French surrealists and over-realists has no secret for you? Then maybe Anthonin Artaud has a place […]
Michael Stipe
A really serendipitous kinda day today as, after many years thinking these were lost, I’ve unearthed a number of drawings when I was in my late teens. These were the last drawings I did before stopping for 20 years. They are pretty much of my […]
Folky autumn leaves
There is one way of making the end of the summer less bitter sweet… It’s autumn leaves season!! Such a cornucopia of vibrant colours and unique elaborate shapes, everyday offers these little ‘ooh!’ moments of discovering these objects of beauty. We spent most of last […]
Day of the dead – meet Señor Consuelo Con Rocko
Been loving painting the holey rocks of Ile de Ré these past few weeks – and as much as I like them as they are, my friend Lucy suggested framing them and I jumped at the idea. So let me introduce Señor Consuelo Con Rocko […]
Matisse egg
My daughter’s last term project was exploring artists. With little time to spare (due the following day!!) and a Matisse exhibition in town and a little pinterest for inspiration (saw a balloon covered in leaves) and inspiration hit hard – we would make a matisse […]
Karuski's little shop of colours 