Tag: British art

Designer Desire: Alice Fox

Montage of Alice Fox artworks

Alice Fox is a West Yorkshire-based artist who is hugely influenced by the natural world; the land, the coast and man’s impact on it.

She weaves, sews, twists and plaits organic and found materials; from leaves, to nettle fibre, to wild dandelion stems, to flax that she grows on her allotment. She uses limpet shells, old garden tools, beach-combed plastic, found metal objects. She has even woven the ubiquitous plastic bag, repurposing it into string.

Her work is incredibly beautiful and inspiring – delicate, strong and tactile. Have a browse of her Instagram feed – it’s fabulous!

My process-led practice is based on personal engagement with landscape and has sustainability at its heart. I am fascinated by the detail of organic things and my work celebrates and carries an essence of what I experience in the natural world.

Alice recently published a book, entitled Wild Textiles: Grown, Foraged, Found which is available on her website, Amazon, Batsford Books and WH Smith.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Harry Charles Tim

Montage of Harry Charles Tim paintings

Harry Charles Tim (b. 1956) is a fine art painter based in Stratford-on-Avon. In a past life, he was a soldier in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. After finishing his service, he immigrated to Germany, where he initially became a dealer in antiques and art before himself becoming an artist.

Tim is represented by Meander & Mooch and Montpellier Gallery. Examples of his work also appear online at auction and at Saatchi Art.

Portrait of Harry Charles Timcredit

Additional image credits:
Meander & Mooch | Montpellier Gallery

A rare day

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II - Chris Levine entitled, "Lightness of Being"

Today has been a rare day; indeed, it’s been a rare week and more. We spent many hours watching the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on the television. Despite us not being royalists, we greatly respect and admire the late Queen.

It was all so moving; the readings, the slow procession of uniformed troops through London, the sound of the massed pipes and drums, the crowds, the Queen’s favourite pony, the corgis and most of all, the lone piper at end of the Windsor service. Who does ceremony and pageantry as well as the British?

Image: © Chris Levine

Designer Desire: Oskar with a K

Oskar with a K montage of graffiti artworks

I’ve just realised that it’s not very often that we’ve featured a graffiti artist in our Designer Desire series. As luck would have it, I’m very familiar with – if not the work itself, then – some of the locations of work by Oskar with a K.

In a past life, I worked in a few different arts organisations in Manchester city centre, one of which was directly opposite the Ritz where his Ooh Child work is situated. At a later date, I worked in the city’s Northern Quarter, and I walked past the former public toilet where his Hello work now lives on a twice-daily basis.

Here’s what Oskar with a K says about himself:

I would describe my work as graphic design unhindered by scale. I love working in public space, engaging fully with the environment I’m in and contributing to a world in which art and design is implicit to our cityscapes.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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