Lifestyles of the rich and the famous...

 

Gypsy chic as designed by Pearl Lowe and painted my me.

Shame about the April showers but proud to be part of this stylish refurbishment!

Cant wait to see real published photos next year!!

 

 

  

  

  

 

 

Mango made some good friends and lucky little Betty Goffy has definatley got the best playhouse this side of Glastonbury Tor!!

 

 Hanging out in the Somerset valleys', painting crucial floral detail that i didn't dream i was capable of , is just one great example of why i love my job. 

A few weeks in this countryhouse garden has put the concept of success into a different frame... but. 

Cant get too deep now i've got a 10metre whale to start painting tomorrow....

“Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below” 

  

the big blue

 

Big things are happening at the REd brick building this week!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

Somehow i have designed and started to create a 50metre mural on commission from Sunrise Celebration festival. Without being able to assend on the fields of Pilton this year we are just going to have to go to Bruton instead. If you make it t the festival you will see this finished underwater work as a wall in the main arena

 

over the next 2 weeks we hope to create a PROPER scene and make both shareholdrs and passers by alike understand just how much creativity us glasto folk have inside of us that's just waiting to get out!.

The red brick building has already shown us that it is a  MUCH NEEDED facility within our rural landscape even if it is only half built!

Already feeling more than honourned to be the first to make art in there and also honoured to have a bunch of friends around willing to put the hours in painting seaweed!!!!! stoked!!!

Time flies when you're watching the water!!!

WOW who can believe it is a whole entire year since i spent a week underwater within the walls of the Mullum Wash house...!! Please everyone hold your breath and hope that the magic festival fairy grants me my wish of a summer full of work and a fist full of dollars
...then i'll be able to grace the Byron Shire with my presence and my brushes again before the year is out.

Back in the chair

After painting, swimming is my biggest passion and once again i find myself sitting above the pool gazing into turquoise waters and analysing peoples swimming techniques. It is my thinking time.
And the space above and around the water allows my bestest ideas to flow.. :)






Porchester, Jubilee, Artxanda, Brockwell have been the subjects of these screenprints and i'm looking towards a somerset summer of Greenbank :)

Branching out....

This stylish flat just got more stylish.....!






Lemon coloured flowers in limetree square. Somerset looking brighter every day :)

Sea shells and things

Somewhere in the centre of Somerset last week i locked myself in a blue bathroom for 10 hours.
I thought long and hard about whether the peaceful green surrounds i'm getting used to are really worth all of the long silences i'm having to endure. Not a single siren or flicker of urban music . No foreign languages being spoken around me as i traveled to or from work. No
"mind the gap", no phone reception. Just me, my brushes , some other farm houses in the distance and some orange paint..



So.. with the lack of distraction or entertainment i actually achieved quite alot.
which means that yes, the silence is golden once you get past the darkness of your own thoughts!!!

Juke box blues (and purples,and greens )

So far, our special friend the peacock and his snazzy feathers has been quite an ongoing theme in Glastonbury this winter!. the freshly wed and brand new landlady of The Market House is making sure everybody knows shes there and has chosen a feathered theme throughout the pub that suits me and my brushes just fine!
As she jetted off on her honeymoon this week and left me to work my magic by the pool table; the snow fell hard outside, i got a bit sad about the daytime drinking habits of my town and i wished that somebody would CHANGE THE MUSIC.


where am i gonna find, someone like yooooooou???
good F**king question Adele

feathered edges

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.
~Clare Whiting

Dark-by-4pm-boredom lead me to paint this Indian peacock canvas and then physical addiction to the painting of smooth round repeated shapes lead me to paint this kitchen wall.




68 feathers; soft, repeated and flowing, that as i painted them reminded me of your kisses.
or was it the other way around? x

now that we've found love......what are we gonna do with it?

If you have spent the long nights of winter 2011 in Glastonbury as i have, you may have spotted these doves carrying a message to remind us that there's just no pleasing some people.
Well, there's just no pleasing me

reflective times in sw7

City VS country is the theme these days, I'm dividing my time between the 2. Gazing through bus windows along the A303 is giving me plenty of time to ponder on which environment is simply better for a girl like me. THEN i realise i dont have to decide, and i find myself in Vauxhall where young children, dogs, pretty flowers, community and craft life exist despite the urban surroundings.
Heres' a garden corner i painted as the seasons turned. I learnt to use mortar, fell in love with raspberry coloured paint, battled with rain, broken mirrors and crumbly old walls! and I thank the Brookes for giving me the challenge.

This is the mock design i worked from using images from THIS incredible flower website
I also found time to skate around Stockwell, eat sushi in Soho and see the sun rise on a stupid night out on Brick lane. now THATS the city life i miss!!!

Heriz Payne Architects Glastonbury

An office mural commission turned into an entirely different project recently when i worked on a huge canvas for a week in solitude instead of having public interaction at each stage as usual.
I was happy to paint in my own space as it helped the non-plan i had of lines and shapes when i started and saved any embarrassment from all of my old cassette mix tapes that i listened to whilst i worked!

As i reflected on my younger years during piles of analoge recordings i couldn't help but feel really very happy about how far we've all come since the Alanis Morrisette era.




Heriz Payne Architects www.herizpayne.com

stats for dinner

so in the period of life organising that i'm going through i'm getting all hooked on numbers
Here's some interesting ones for you
So far, since 2006, i've painted
101 walls
21 boards
16 signs
13 flower pots
10 tables
9 canvases
4 boats
2 doors
and 1 floor

in 8 different countries!

underwater love

To bring a new dimension into the krumble Empire photographic studio, i spent a saturday night in a turquoise dream with my brushes and then dusted off the Ariel costume.



Thanks to the melancholy rhino for his shooting skills and endless patience with girls getting into stupid costumes!!!

Mad about tea and homemade cake

Although my home town of Glastonbury is saturated with independently run cafes, the neighbouring town of Street is the commercial opposite.
Across the road from Starbucks, Costa and Subway, the Mad hatter cafe in Street High st,is thriving on people who want no fuss builders tea, jacket potatoes with coleslaw and good old fruit cake made on the premesis.

Over the last few months i have been slowly decorating the shuttered walls of the cafe to brighten the space and bring some fresh new colours into an old stone building.

Watch out in Tottenham Hale...

Not for bricks coming through your car window, or that shop on fire across the road ! NO!
watch this space for another warehouse celebration of love, North and south of the Equator!.
last year's lacey special will remain as we all get together from far away lands and rejoice in friendships far and wide.... I CAN'T WAIT!