Good morning! Well it is beautiful sunshine here after a few days of hailstones, ever so bried sunshine and not so brief episodes of rain. I am sitting here at my laptop with my ever present cup of earl grey and I can hear the birds singing and soon I will hear the (screaming) children playing in the playground of the school across the road. Life is good.
I have some exciting news! You can hop on over to this wonderful blog to read a really in depth interview about my work and my inspirations. Now you might feel that you have read it all here before (all about me that is), and be bored to tears by it all (!) but Waterrose really did an incredible job with the questions and I found them challenging and thought provoking in the most wonderful way. Reading back on my answers it has certainly re-confirmed in my own min
d that I am on the right path however hard it may be at times.
I 'met' Rose via etsy when we were paired together as mutual support for our blossoming shops! Featuring a series of artist interviews on her blog, it has been fascinating to read the various inspirations behind each person's work. I am also completely in love with the beautifully detailed cuffs and rings in her etsy shop, the colours are just gorgeous with an incredible amount of painstaking detail. So thank you Rose for a wonderful chance to talk about my work.
I have been working in my journal again and am really looking forward to taking some of these ideas on into larger pieces.
I did show the first pages in my blog yesterday but as a reader was curious about the writing so I thought I would type it here. When working in my journal along with the drawings I tend to just write whatever comes into my thought at that particular time. I don't worry if it makes sense or tells a story or pertains to any kind of reality, I just love playing with words and how they sound and look together and expressing my wonderings onto paper. They may even make you think I am slightly loopy and it does feel very revealing to write it out here, But oh well........here goes!
I wish I lived centures ago.....and could view the moon and see nothing else
A vast expanse of emptiness all around
I would feel insignificant.....but would want to feel as if I am the space around which the full world carries on
No-one can see me
All the details and colours and textures surround me
As if in a Stormy Sea
PS - After almost a year and a half of writing this blog I still haven't got the hang of the lay-out and have wasted so much time trying to find out the most basic things! If anyone could tell me how to centre the images and my writing below it I would be eternally grateful!
Have a wonderful day!
her work is so amazing...I adore her shop.
Great feature!
Posted by: sara | 01 May 2008 at 10:23 PM
Gil...lovely words and I loved reading what is written on the pages. If you were using blogger I could tell you how to format the page the way you want....but alas...I'm not familiar with typepad.
Posted by: waterrose | 02 May 2008 at 06:09 AM
Gillian, that was a wonderful interview you did with Waterrose! I especially enjoyed your discussion of working through creative blocks and your Haiku--something that I am working on developing right now.
Thank you for your comments on my blog--I've enjoyed reading yours also and following the progression of the costumes, etc. Like you, not always time to comment, but I have been here.
Posted by: Craftymoose | 05 May 2008 at 12:19 AM
What a fabulous interview - and such questions! I love your journal pages too. Coming to your blog somehow makes me stop, slow down and become more introspective. It's so easy to get caught up in the panic and mania of 'producing' that I forget where I'm coming from, where I'm going and what my intentions are. Thank you for helping to get me re-focused!
Posted by: spiralsun65 | 05 May 2008 at 09:20 AM
Gillian....each page of your journal is an amazing work of art all on it's own, you could sell each page!!!
you are breathtaking!
Posted by: Stilettoheights(jenn) | 05 May 2008 at 02:11 PM