Temple Love

So we are settling into life on the road 'down under', enjoying the sunshine and the wide open spaces! I haven't had a chance to do much drawing for the last few weeks so thought I would dig out these photos that I've been meaning to post on here for a while - These are mosiacs from a very old temple I went to in Luang Prapang, in Laos. They completely blew me away, the whole wall was covered in these detailed little scenes made from glass. I especially love the combination of colours and the simple shapes of the figures, they make me want bring more colour into my own work, but I'm still loving my black pen so we'll see.. :)

Yogya Street Art

I saw some pretty interesting artwork while wandering around Yogyakarta in Java. The city is considered to be the cultural heart of Java and is one of the best places to see traditional Indonesian arts such as batik painting and puppet making. It's nice to see that the city has a cool contemporary art scene too

A large Nepalese lady and a small man..

This was painted on a sign showing a trekking map in Nepal, I don't know who the artist is but isn't it great?

In the Himalayas

Some photos from the Annapurna Base Camp trek I did in Nepal a couple of months ago, pictures can't even begin to show how amazingly beautiful these mountains are..

So nice

One day

I want to have a crazy patterned floor in my house like these ones I saw in Vietnam!

Chandigargh Rock Garden

While I was in North India I decided to travel to a 'new town' called Chandigargh to check out the famous rock garden there, and it was AMAZING! The story goes that a man called Nek Chand built the entire place secretely over the course of about 30 years using rubbish from the demolition of the original Chandigargh town. He was only discovered in 1975 and now his creation has become a national treasure, what a crazy brilliant man he must be!

You can read the whole story on Wikipedia here

So Inspiring

I've seen so many beautiful things during my 6 months in India, these are just a few of my favourites

Shahid Parvez

While I was walking around Udaipur a few days ago I stumbled across a lovely little gallery run by the artist Shahid Parvez. His work just blew me away! I sat with him and drank tea and he was so lovely, answering my questions about his process and techniques in depth (lots of artists get secretive at this point!) His characters are great and the colours are amazing in real life, he also has some really great etchings. Anyway one day when I'm a bit richer I'm going to come back and buy some of his work! He doesn't have a website but can be contacted at gallerypristine@yahoo.com :)

My colourful life

From the top: Neil's Yard in London, graffiti in Neal's Yard, my lunch (mmm), my box of random paper, more paper, and the 'Robot Cat' card I made for Dev's birthday yesterday :)

Larmer Tree

After two weeks of muddy freezing festivaling and what I can only assume was swine flu...I'm back! :)