Picture yourself on a bed of clover sipping chamomile tea from a mason jar. As the morning breeze touches your face, you slip into a daydream and enter an enchanted world of warmth, joy, and love.
That is the world freelance illustrator Katie Daisy lives in!
Her beautiful artwork is both bright and inspiring. Katie takes quotes, saying etc and turns them into masterpieces.
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I am an artist from Tamworth NSW. I have a Bachelor of Art Education and have been a visual artist and art teacher since 1980.
I gained national recognition and success in the 1990’s as an embroiderer with a number of group and solo shows and two touring exhibitions through regional galleries in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. My work was featured in Textile Fibre Forum, The Land newspaper and Masters of their Craft, a coffee table book by art historian, Norris Iannou. I won The Dame Nancy Buttfield Embroidery Prize and The Namoi Valley Cotton Fibre Acquisitive Award. Through the exhibition tour of Revealing Threads I was the recipient of a $10,000 Australia Council Grant that allowed me to travel to various towns and cities to give workshops.
I now work on painting, and drawing producing my artwork from a loft studio in my home near Tamworth, NSW.
I paint and draw mostly. My artwork has a very feminne aesthetic. I create richly coloured, finely detailed, alternate worlds inhabited by beautiful girls, at once strange, yet delightful, with expressive eyes and dark natures. Works in painting, drawing and sculpture are inspired by fairytale and nursery rhyme narratives, pop culture, beauty and the feminine persona. There always has to be a girl in the work. For me the artwork has to have that human element so it can have some kind of narrative and the girls give the works their emotional content. Whether it is a nursery rhyme series like Rhyme and Reason or tattoo imagery such as the Irezumi Angel series or the current body of work I am creating at present which uses the horse and pony as a symbol, the works all involve a female character.
Being an artist.
Being married to an astounding man.
Painting and drawing in my loft studio.
Selling my work.
Riding my pony and playing with my wee dog.
Doing things at my own pace.
To be able to continue what I am doing and gain recognition for it.
Website: www.marielarkin.com.au
Facebook: http://facebook.com/dollandpony
Twitter: http://twitter.com/dollandpony
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/larkster54/
Instagram: @dollandpony
Offline you can find me in my studio/gallery in Tamworth NSW, Australia.
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I feel my inspiration comes from so many different aspects of the everyday goings on in life. I have been an animal lover since I was a small girl living on a farm in New Zealand.
There are a stack of old photos of me hugging lambs, cats, rabbits and dogs. I find the personalities of animals at times hilarious but always fascinating. My other love is FOOD. I think cooking is beautiful and an expression of myself. I find illustrating food so rewarding,, food is sometimes overlooked as an artistic subject as we see it many times everyday.
If you take the time to cook a lovely meal you will start to appreciate it’s humble beauty. I have a background in graphic design, I think this has shaped me in some way to me more conscious of the composition and structure of my illustration. My career so far has been a fairly organic progress, I have always wanted to be an illustrator and could never really see another option.
My illustrations are generally created using water colour, ink, pen and lastly digital line work. I am a bit old fashioned and prefer to work by hand! To do more work creating textile prints is a career goal for me. I have worked with Adelaide label See&ell to create two fabric designs used in their 2012/13 summer collection and love seeing my illustrations worn, used and enjoyed in a different way.
my facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KarliAlizaIllustration
etsy shop: etsy.com//shop/karlializa
web: karlializa.com
The photo of the See&ell swim suit is by Phebe Rendulić.
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How sweet is this print by Sail and Swan, an Australian artist? The colors are cheerful and the squiggly lines just make me smile. Plus, who doesn’t like stacking dolls?
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Tiffany Atkin is an Australian graphic designer and illustrator, currently based in Brisbane, QLD. Heavily influenced by the time she spent living & working in Tokyo, her Japanese-flavoured illustrations are a colourful, eclectic & feminine blend of vector lines, pen and ink, acrylic, watercolour wisps, vintage fabric, Japanese washi paper and pages torn straight from her sketchbook.
She has exhibited work in various group shows in Australia and Japan, and just recently launched iro iro POP!, a series of art shows dedicated to Japanese-inspired art & design.
Her illustration work was recently picked up by the online clothing store ModCloth, for use in their upcoming style book as well as a series of limited edition tote bags, soon to be available for sale on the ModCloth website.
Aside from her love of Japanese pop culture, she is very partial to colours in the pastel, neon & metallic range, blossoms, baby alpacas, salmon onigiri, black and white, various shades of pink, pattern, polkadots, femininity, inky wisps & smudges, concrete jungles, fineliner pens, The Mighty Boosh, Florence Broadhurst, 1920s Erte, melodic tunes with infectious beats, spicy tom yum soup and vanilla lattes.
Tiff doesn’t yet have an online store, however people can email her at tiffany.atkin AT gmail.com about prints.
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Tiffany Atkin’s piece in the 2013 *bespoke* calendar
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