Friday Illustration: Comet Lovejoy

Week 2: Comet Lovejoy

Did you spot Comet Lovejoy this week?  It should be visible (under good conditions - storms go away!) for another 2 weeks & then it's not expected to be back for 8,000 years! Also is there another earth out there?!

Friday Illustration: Swimmer

Week 1: Swimmer

New Year, New Illustration Project: I’m going to start posting a new illustration each Friday, it might be about a funny news story or an event that happened that week or a quotation or a place I visited or like this weeks a personal goal to start swimming! So by the end of the year I'll have an illustrative diary of my own 2015 in 52 illustrations {1 down, 51 to go!}.

Art to see Winter 2014

Here's a few (quite a lot!) of exhibitions I'd love to see around England this Winter, some are open now & others don't open till next year.

The 1718 Silk Patchwork Coverlet at the Quilt Museum, York




Marlene Dumas at Tate Modern

 

Giovanni Bautista Moroni at the Royal Academy

 Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination at the British Library 

 Phyllida Barlow at Tate Britain




Richard Diebenkorn at the Royal Academy

 Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude at the Courtauld Gallery

Ming: 50 years that changed China at the British Museum




Face to Face: British Portraits from the Clifford Chance art collection at the Sir John Soane's Museum

Jacqueline Poncelet at Marsden Woo





Local History: Castellani, Judd & Stella at Dominique levy




New World, Old Maps at The American Museum, Bath

It's a Wrap: Japanese Furoshiki Past & Present at Rugby Art Gallery & Museum

 Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace

From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia at the Dulwich Picture Gallery


 

Richard Tuttle: I don't know. The weave of textile language at Whitechapel & his Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern



Howard Hodgkin: Green Thoughts at Alan Cristea





Edward Bawden, Graves Gallery, Sheffield




The Sensory War at Manchester Art Gallery

Cornelia Parker & everything else at the soon to reopen (14 February 2015) Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Carlos Bunga

 Artes Mundi 6 at National Museum Cardiff, Chapter & Ffotogallery




Conflict & Collisions: New Contemporary Sculpture at the Hepworth, Wakefield

 Ursula Von Rydingsvard at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

What exhibitions do you want to see?

Podcast Love

While waiting for the new episode of Serial to drop I thought I'd list a few of my fave podcasts I love to listen to:- A new series podcast dealing with one story over the course of 12+ episodes. This 'season' on Serial is dealing with a high school murder case from 1999, is he guilty? is he innoncent? who knows? as the creators are making it while we speak! Listen to:  The whole series - it's addictive!

There's so many amazing stories of different walks of life on 'This American Life' and all back episodes dating back to 1995 are online, hours of listening fun!   Listen to: This call may be recorded....to save your life Come back to Afghanistan

For fun, giggles, song wars, made up jokes, waffles & boggins there's always Adam & Joe, even though there's no more new Adam & Joe (please come back!) you can still listen to old episodes, yay!   Listen to: Denny Different (with special guest the Queen & Royal Wedding Song Wars!)

The New Yorker: Out Loud is great for small nuggets of cool stories, culture, news, art, music all taken from that weeks New Yorker magazine. Listen to: Hector Tobar on the Chilean Mine Disaster

Love quizzes, trivia, puzzles & puns? check out Ask Me Another, recorded live in front of a studio audience in Brooklyn & around the US, contestants take part in fun quizzes compered by the comedian Ophira Eisenberg, her musical sidekick Jonathan Coulton & puzzle guru Art Chung! Listen to: Trivia is the New Black

Love Graham's chat show? his podcast of his radio 2 show has mostly lesser-known guests but the same fun-talk & and get some great advice from Grill Graham! Listen to:  The latest few episodes...

I've always thought I could be good at running (yeah right!) I just have to get up from the couch. Well this NHS podcast 'Couch to 5K' might just help me do it, it tells you when to run, when to walk and builds up each week. {There's also an app so you can listen to your own music while running/walking!}

What are your fave podcasts?

August Instagram Diary

      

Here's my favourite moments of August 2014 through my Instagram:

Rubha Huinish on Skye Birthday Walk where we spotted seals & minke whales, Visited the oldest inn on Skye, London Map drawing for my sister's birthday present...

     

Packing up an Oscar Wilde Print order from my Louise Norman Studio shop to be sent to Dublin, Packing wooden game orders from my vintage Beautifunk shop, making Merci thank you cards...

   

Creating a new confetti sprinkle tote bag, Beautiful Tiled walls at Sheffield Library, Wrapping mini presents in origami paper...

     

Walking in the Peak District, Visiting Chatsworth & a sneak preview of the new 'Beyond Limits' sculpture exhibition and visiting the beautiful 'Heights Chapel', Delph, Saddleworth for lots of family history.