Artist Open Houses – May 2018

I’m really looking forward to exhibiting in the Artist Open Houses this year with Teresa and friends in Preston Drove in the Five Ways Trail. It starts in a couple of weeks for the whole of the month of May. Please see the artist open houses website for details.

Pictures up in The Black Lion Pub

With the help of comedy DIY masterful duo Ben (@typicalbs) and Chris at the Black Lion Pub, I have managed to hang my 3-dimensional constructed paper illustrations in this lovely establishment. They (the pictures not the duo) will be there for your viewing pleasure for the next couple of months. Pop in if you get the chance.

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Exhibition Press Release

Exhibition Press Release – Stephanie Parker

Back to the Drawing Board – 3D constructed illustrations: close ups

Back to the Drawing Board

Some close up shots of the work in this exhibition – see them on Madebysteph – Facebook

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Back to the Drawing Board – Illustration Exhibition

Exhibition – Back to the Drawing Board

The Big Christmas Fair – 2nd December

Come on down and get all your Christmas goodies this Sunday!

World Mental Health Day 2012

 

The mental health charity, Mind, used madebysteph’s illustration to help mark World Mental Health Day 2012.

A Fish’s (vicious) Circle

The image is a surreal and slightly playful metophor pertaining to both feelings of entrapment and hope.  It bears relevance to circumstances or situations, both physical and psychological which are difficult to escape.

The boundaries of where one object becomes another within the image are almost imperceptible. It’s hard to identify where the parrots end and the raindrops begin or the end of the raindrops and the beginning of the fish. Even the tree morphs into a cloud without any real warning. Our eyes move around the image  and reach the top where the parrot is drained of its colour and morphs into raindrops, falling back to earth as fish and leading us into another loop of the cycle.

These imperceptible boundaries symbolise how difficult it can be in life to find an opportunity to introduce change. It’s sometimes harder breaking free of old routines or habbits than it is to remain in the never-ending cycle. However, the image also illustrates hope and the future. One of the parrots does escape from the loop, leaving the cycle in its full colourful glory and into the clear sky thereby freeing itself and the viewer from the Fish’s Circle.

See madebysteph at Craft Alliance Art Fair on 28th October @ The Brunswick

Craft Alliance Art Fair