ephemeral gecko by mixy gregory
making it all up, one bit at a time: mixed media & textile art, musings & metaphors.
Before I go on holiday at the end of this month I’ll be closing up my Etsy store. It will be closed from 16 September for one month.
So if you’re planning gifts for the holidays and like to start shopping early – now is your chance – I’m having a pre-holiday sale with 25% off everything!!
Now I’m off to find my flip-flops and begin the wind down!! 🙂
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I’m having a big Etsy sale through to the end of July
original artwork, dyed paper collages, art cards & postcards.
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Offer Closes 31 July 2018! Last chance, folks!
Last year I created some postcards from from drawings, including these from the 100 day project I did last year.
If you’d like to help me clear space to make more colorful things, take a hop over to my Etsy store and scoop up one of the last postcard sets. Especially for you lovely folks who subscribe to my newsletter, they are HALF PRICE while stocks last.
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In the digital re-imagining of my art that I was telling you about yesterpost, I’m creating one of these collage postcards series entirely from the images in the 100 day project from earlier this year.
I’m finding the journey of a creative practice follows a spiral path, revisiting and reinventing along the way, enriching and inspiring from the past into the future.
These drawings nestle up together in their new arrangements as one edge blends into another.
They contain hidden messages and fragments of found poetry from the words and phrases that wandered through my mind as I drew.
These are glimpses into the dream scape of my imagination. And I’m only just beginning!
If you’re quick you can catch them in my Etsy store …
If you’re super quick you’ll catch the This-Weekend-Only-Sale of 15% off EVERYTHING and catch international shipping before the holidays! Lawks!!
There are currently Two sets of Three Postcards available:
You can find Set 1 here & Set 2 right here
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You know how I love to find new ways to find new ways.
I love to mix my drawings and graphics in with my photography experiments by way of digital collages.
I’ve been having the most fun doing this lately and new art is emerging as I spiral around in this creative practice.
I was so pleased with the way these designs came out I had some printed up as postcards.
They are gorgeous!
I love how they contain hidden messages and fragments of found poetry as snippets of words and text peep through.
They are glimpses into the dream scape of my imagination. And I’m only just beginning!
If you’re quick you can catch them in my Etsy store …
If you’re super quick you’ll catch the This-Weekend-Only-Sale of 15% off EVERYTHING and catch international shipping before the holidays! Lawks!!
If you’d like regular monthly updates on my latest colorful antics, delivered right to your inbox (all the good stuff I don’t share here on the blog + special discounts on my classes and Etsy things) Hop on my mail-list right here:
and I’ll send you my ebook A Year full of Color
Your email is utterly safe to me. It will be wrapped up snug and nestled with a hot water bottle until the spring arrives.
I began working on this series back in July, but the paintings from which I collaged these tiny works date back much further.
I love how life and art spiral round,
how patterns repeat on a range scales,
how it’s all about the context.
Then I zoom out and I see this project in the context of all the art I’ve ever made, and all I have yet to imagine.
It’s a place on a timeline, and that line spirals round.
These 15 pieces are the first of a multi-part series: “Inner Space”
In this iteration I’m zooming in.
Next look at these thoughts will be both from afar and close up.
The micro & the macro.
There’s so much more yet to come,
I’m so excited to show you how this develops!
All these paintings, inclusive of their mounts, measure just a smidge over 5 inches square.
I think their magic is in the tiny details.
You can become lost in these itsy-small worlds.
All of these one-off art cards are available in my Etsy Store from today. International shipping is available — catch ’em while you can!
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I’ll sing it to sleep when it lands with me, and bring it tea and a bun if it wakes up.
I love to look for connections, to explore ideas that bring more substance to the understanding I have of this brief blip of a life we have here in this world.
I’ve a project that I’ve been dipping in and out of for a while now, which I plan to explore in a variety of ways. The first part relates to scale.
Popular science tells us, that taking all we’ve managed to measure – from the whole known universe at the top end down to the very tiniest measurable amount – that size-wise we are in the middle.
It’s illustrated here by Cary & Michael Huang
(I also like to believe it doesn’t stop there, it keeps going in both directions beyond our abilities to measure. It keeps on going forever – turtles all the way down – as the saying goes. But that’s not for now.)
Before I fall down another rabbit hole of ponderings, I have art to make:
It begins here with this series of miniature abstract paintings, which resulted from time spent playing with these ideas.
We talk about looking at the overview, the ‘bigger picture’. One purpose of art is to flip reality. So this time go smaller. To tiny things.
Each little painting offers an interpretation to the viewer, it can be any scale, a world zoomed in or out?
A landscape or a microscopic view. Or both.
Perhaps this is a fractal universe where we live, perhaps not. I like to explore these ideas without attaching to any. These thoughts fuel the desire to build patterns out of patterns. 
This first Series is titled Inner Space and consists of 15 small watercolor & collage paintings mounted as art cards, and will be up in my Etsy shop in October. Hop on my mailing list to be first to know more!
I love sets of things, I love arrangements & collections.
When I hear a song I love, I have to scurry off as soon as I can to find the album it’s from, find the artist, track down the other tracks. Fall in love again.
When my eyes are magnetised by a piece of art, I race to seek out the artist and soak in everything else they’ve created.
I’ve done this with authors and poets, actors, directors, blogs and my current jam: podcasts. I get hooked. I have to absorb all I can until my attention is hooked someplace else.
This energy directs me, and now I’ve identified it, I can see how it plays out in all kinds of ways.
I’ve had attachment to all sorts of obsession, with habits and ritual, with a certain style of living or eating or being, with a form of minutiae that maybe only I notice, but it’s place in my days has been critical. For the moment. Then gone.
Sometimes it’s a few days, sometimes a few years, or anywhere in between. The more life I live the more context for this observation and the more patterns I can see.
Right now I’m channelling this obsessive method into making. I’m filling every moment, pouring every ounce of energy into making, and will do so until the next hook catches me. That maybe tomorrow – maybe next year – I’ll show you when.
It’s manifesting itself right now as a collection of paper and fabric collages, I’m calling the Peacock & Mermaid collection. This is part two. I don’t know if there will be a part three – I might get called away by another muse.
All of the pieces shown here are available in my Etsy shop. The first part of the collection sold out the first day – so hop over quick if you’d like one of them in your home!
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I’ve just spent a month dwelling in a color I love so much: blue-green, and I have to admit it wasn’t easy to move on!
In this year full of color, as I journey around the color wheel, I’m devoting each month to a single color, and April was all about teal, turquoise and sea-shades of aquamarine. These are the colors of a magical world inhabited by peacocks & mermaids. And me!
At the end of each month I add the fruits of my makings to my Etsy Shop — there are only three of these in existence, so catch ’em while you can!
Mounted on 8 inch square canvas board, these are layered collages of hand dyed paper and cotton & silk fabric intricately detailed with little weeny glass beads and stitching.
They are ready to hang as soon as they arrive in their new homes.
Welcome to the underwater realms of my imagination …
