Elphaba
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Arty type |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm a textile and paper artist, (mainly but not exclusively) and I hold a BA/Hons degree from Bretton Hall, University of Leeds, School of Fine Art. I spend much of my time being creative, and during the times I'm not I tend to be thinking about my latest project. I live in a small village in South Lincolnshire, England, surrounded by fenland and I'm currently in the process of trying to intoduce my art to my fellow fenlanders! I've been with my gorgeous man for eight years now, and we live together with three dogs, four hens, two fish and the occasional visiting hedgehog. |
| Interests | Art, painting, filling note books with ideas and things that inspire me, shiny things, collecting source material to be used in my work, (I have drawers full of paper, vintage and contemporary fabrics, buttons, beads and silks), reading, making stuff (clothes jewellery etc), Halloween, ACEO's, nature, retro gaming, kitsch junk, leapard print, Paris, Aboriginal Dreamtime stories, cooking, geishas, Halloween Whimsy art, Witch Art, Burlesque, Pulp Art, erotic art, Rob Ryan cut-outs, paper engineering, shoes, handbags, vintage Halloween postcards, Cheesecake pin-ups, visting new places, socialising, art galleries, the Chinese circus, feeding my addiction to buying books on amazon, Tim Burton films. |
| Favorite movies | I shot Andy Warhol, Anything by Tim Burton (except Mars Attacks), Frida, Withnail and I, Sin City, Amelie, Chicago, Gentlemen prefer Blondes, Some Like it Hot, The Notorious Bettie Page, Retro Betty Boop, Beetle Juice, Hellboy, The X-Men, Harry Potter-particularly the Order of The Phoenix, Practical Magic, Tank Girl, errr.... Love Actually....cuz frankly I'm a total girl.... |
| Favorite music | Bethoven's 5th symphony (play it loud!), Bjork, Blondie, Candie Payne, Cocteau Twins, The Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Dead 60's, Death in Vegas,The Divine Comedy (Yes Will you finally convinvced me!) Elbow, Fiona Apple, The Fratellis, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, The Hives, The Hoosiers, Humanwine, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop (and the stooges), er...Johnny Cash (we all have one guilty pleasure...), Joni Mitchell, Kaiser Chiefs (yay Leeds!), Kasabian, Kate Nash, The Killers, Ladytron, The Levellers, The Libertines, Mars Volta, Marylin Manson, Muse, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Nora Jones, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Pulp, Puppini Sisters, The Raconteurs,Radiohead, Rammestein, Ramones, Rasputina, Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers (mostly their early stuff), Regina Spektor, Rob Zombie, Skunk Anansie, The Stranglers, Strokes, Supergrass, Tchaikovsky's Dance of the sugar plum fairy, Tool, Tori Amos, The Decemberists, The 5-6-7-8's, Velvet Revolver, The Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. |
| Favorite books | The owl and the pussycat, Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Golden, Old Man Fire L & G Adams, The Melancholy Death of Oyster boy Tim Burton, Women, Art and Society-Whitney Chadwick, An introduction to Jung's Psychology-Frieda Fordham, Burlesque/Fetish and The Art of the Teese-Dita von Teese, Harry Potter-JK Rowling, Hell Babies- Junko Mizuno, Burton on Burton-Tim Burton, The magic Toyshop-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber-Angela Carter, The Passion of the New Eve-Angela Carter, The Virago Book of Fairy Tales edited by Angela Carter, The Alchemist-Paulo Coelho, The art of Undressing-Stephanie Lehmann, The testament of Gideon Mack- James Robertson, Striptease from Gaslight to Spotlight-Jessica Glasscock, The Celestial Omnibus-E M Forster, Lempicka-Gilles Neret, Princess Mermaid-Junko Mizuno, The Madness of Adam and Eve-David Horrobin, The Complete works of Oscar Wilde, Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, Blab, by Fantagraphics, Edgar Allen Poe, Australia's Living Heritage Jennifer Isaacs, Chocolat, Holy Fools, Lollipop Shoes- Joanne Harris, Aboriginal Fables and Legendary Tales A.W.Reed, Every Woman a Witch Cassandra Eason, Wicked-Gregory Mcguire, The book of Goddesses- Roni Jay, The Once Unknown Familiar- Timothy Roderick, Practical Magic-Alice Hoffman, 365 Goddesses-Patricia Telasco, Dream Angus-Alexander McCall Smith, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carrol, Ensor-Ulrike Becks-Malorny, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson, Christina Rosetti, Gods Behaving Badly-Marie Phlilips, Mirror Mirror- Gregory Maguire, Snow White Blood Red, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. |
You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
My kirby grips!