I hope that everyone has a had a really good weekend because mine was great. It was one of those perfect weekends which has the right balance of fun, randomness, though provocation, relaxation, art and offal - all will be explained!
Some of you may remember me posting about my friend Laura and her amazing house/ wardrobe/ mess before. Well Laura and her fabulous sister have decided to put all those amazing costumes - not to mention talent for styling, to use and start their own company - Only fools and Peacocks! With Halloween coming up they are the BEST people to contact if you want an amazing costume and they will style your whole look down to the hair and make-up. You can contact them through their Facebook page, search for only fools and peacocks!
I can't wait to put the photo's on here and there isn't much point trying to describe it without visual aids. What I will say is that we had to lay up a huge banquet table with a variety of props. I use the term prop here loosely as what they turned out to be frozen goats heads, hearts and a cloven hoof so large it could only have come from Beelzebub himself.
A couple of hours later found me with the thawing (yum) goats heads in my hands while I pretended to eat them. So that was the random bit of the weekend covered!
Sunday was a bit of change of pace with not a dismembered body part in sight. We went down to the Palace Art Fair in Bishops park which is down the road from us.
The event is held at Fulham Palace, which is really worth a visit in itself. We missed the fair last year so I was determined to make it this year, and it didn't disappoint. The fair has a relaxed and intimate vibe which is in nice contrast to many of the larger London Art fairs.
Here are some of my picks from the show.
Sarah Young was probably my favourite. Her work has such a whimsical nostalgia to it that I can't help but love it. I think that some of the compositions have a real feel of Chagall to them. Many of the prints that were on show were based on Greek mythology, so I don't know if it was my Greek half drawing me to them. Either way I love her work especially the relief prints. We used to make prints like that at school, creating the design on perspex and printing with it. Might be time to give it a go again.
Check out more of her work at www.sarahyoung.co.uk
We all loved Helaina Sharpley's wirework. The pieces are all so beautifully made and are quite strange to look at actually because you can tell if they have any depth or not. I was so impressed with some of the architectural pieces she had made, the attention to detail is incredible. These would make fantastic original gifts!
See more at www.helainasharpley.co.uk and www.studio-number8.blogspot.com
Having said that Sarah Young was my favourite may have been a bit premature. The paintings of Sasha Bowles were one of the first things we saw. I liked that they were large, as I prefer to work on a large canvas too. They have a fantastic use of colour and texture. As you can see the composition is slightly melancholy or creepy as my friend described it. I love this, I like seeing a real character in a painting that gets you wondering about them. Fantastic.
I'm going to continue this tomorrow, because there are still loads of great people to tell you about, but I'm all typed out for today! TTFN
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