Difficult choice!

Oh, all so lovely! Which one to make? The red minx dress or the green lady dress?

(Actually, I've already made my choice...)

Decisions, decisions...

I've got a solo exhibition coming up in March in Lewes. I've certainly got enough pieces but can't decide whether to stick to a theme (I have series of birds & animals, tea & cake, retro fashion, flowers & plants) or mix it up.

Work will be framed and hung on the wall – no extras in a browser or anything like that.

Any ideas?

Voice of the beehive

Kind of Maria Callas meets Amy Butler on the way to look at some Grecian vases.

Cakes on the way

People so far seem unconvinced of The Good Idea that is making pictures of cakes out of fabric. Teapots worked, folks, why not cakes?

Undeterred, I'm three-quarters of the way through my third cake collage. This one's a large-scale teatime scene and I hope to be finished it tomorrow – it needs to be framed and on the wall in the Open House by Saturday morning!

(Close-up of George's Famous Lemon Tart. Those splodges are the still-wet glue.)

Inspirational fashion illustration

Saw two great fashion illustration exhibitions in London today. The first was Rene Gruau, long championed by David Downton, at Somerset House and the second was Drawing Fashion at the Design museum, worth the freezing cold walk from Tower Bridge.

Mats Gustavson was the highlight for me, you can see a selection of his work here:
http://www.artlies.com/illustrations/mats-gustafsons-fashion-illustration.html

And I'd like to know which of you is willing to shell out £45 for the wonderful Rene Gruau coffee table book for me? Haven't I been very, very good indeed (and it's such a long wait until next Christmas)?