Interstice

So pleased that this large piece - Interstice - has been sold courtesy of The Rowley Gallery, along with a Butterfly Ball. 

Quite a timely sale, as I had been commisioned to create a silver-leaf version of Interstice for another client of the Rowley just last month. 

I have been busy gilding, cutting and arranging. 

Just the glueing and framing to go before this beauty also goes out to its new home. I shall share images of the commission on completion in a future post.

Lambeth Country Show 2016

To Brockwell Park at the weekend for the annual Lambeth Country Show that brings the countryside experience into the city. It is now in its 42nd year and a really popular festival of live music, arts and crafts, farm animals and a showcase of Lambeth council services.

It is an annual Scissorhands tradition to sample the Chucklehead cider, and visit the Health and Wellbeing tent for alternative therapies.

An absolute must on the Lambeth Country Show agenda for me also, is to make a beeline for the Flower Zone, part of which is a tent that displays traditional crafts associated with English country fairs such as a flower and vegetable competition, cake baking displays and my personal favourite - a vegetable carving competition which always raises a smile and has me in awe of the creative, sculptural skills of the entrants. The following were entrants in the floral displays section.

Absolutely magnificent I'm sure you'll agree, and worthy of the Chelsea Flower show. Next are a small selection of the vegetable displays waiting to be judged.

And a selection of appetising homemade cakes. 

My favourite section however is the vegetable carving. I love what the entrants do with a humble vegetable and a little imagination.

This year, unsurprisingly, given the Brexit results and recent Machiavellian machinations and parliamentary power struggles, the most popular theme was political portraits. And as you can see, the resulting vegetable sculptures were particularly innovative and splendid.

Former Ukip leader - Nigel Cab-bage.

Celery Corbyn.

High drama in 'House ofChard' as Boris is cruelly knifed in the back by Gove.

The three witches of Mac-Brexit.

Current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose position seems increasingly vulnerable, was well represented, as were our American cousins in the form of leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (below).

 
I wasn't around for the judging so didn't know which carvings won, (please contact me if you read this blog and know!). I shall remain impartial and keep mum about which were my favourites. All entrants did fantastically well, and the carvings were of a high standard. More power to them for using this as a platform and outlet for their creative ambitions. I look forward to seeing what they come up with next year.

Cambridge Contemporary Art Summer Show

I'm so delighted to once again have been invited to take part in Cambridge Contemporary Art's Summer Show which opens this weekend. There's lots of lovely, new, golden gorgeousness fresh from the Scissorhands studio for Cambridge this summer. Known in London but making its debut in Cambridge this summer is a large, gold-leafed Periphery (above).

This wonderful, flirty, gilded Little Gold Dress, is hot off the catwalk and the perfect thing to keep you cool at those summer cocktail parties. It is also a brand new piece which is making its debut in Cambridge at the summer show.

As does another brand new gold-leafed piece entitled Conclave, which reflects and radiates light beautifully, and, like Periphery is just under one metre square in a box frame. It's like a huge golden alium flower.

And last but by no means least yet another new colourful piece - Butterfly Waltz, which is based around the most beautifully illustrated piece of vintage sheet music. The colours of the butterflies have been carefully matched and selected to reflect those in the sheet music. To reserve any of these pieces before the show opens then please contact the lovely team at CCA. They also have a couple of other pieces of mine in stock so do ask to see those also if you visit Cambridge over the summer. 


The Summer Show
25th June-29th August
Cambridge Contemporary Art
6 Trinity Street
Cambridge
01223 324222
www.cambridgegallery.co.uk 

 

Raoul Dufy: Butterflies Through Others Eyes #22

Butterfly themed paintings and textile designs by Raoul Dufy (1877-1953).