no 19 ‘Girl on Stilts’

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‘Girl on stilts’

The final panel of ‘Girl on Stilts’ is coming soon! For those of you who are just hanging of your seats in desperation to see the final image put together as one image the wait is nearly over. Panels one and two can currently be seen via the Saatchi link on the right. When all three panels have been shown separately I will post the complete image as one.

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no 18

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no 17

The innocuous sellotape which binds us together is a curious one. I’ve been looking at my clustermap and the little red circles which represent someone on the other-side of the world hitting my blog. Thats nuts! So I have decided to post an image which has a tail. The original image was derived from an Ethiopian girl who was photographed carrying a great big fish on her head for her wedding day gift to her husband.I was intrigued by this image and then added the car and a New York back drop. A couple of sessions on the mac playing with Illustrator led me to many reworks and versions but the original is a humble watercolour and carbon paper drawing. Hands up, it was in my more angry days when I was focused on ……………that feeling that something was lost in all of us when we realized wristwatches and T-shirts were being worn in the amazon rainforest. And that standing on a butt at sunset looking over Billings, Montana with Dave, a Lakota Sioux from Fort Peck unified and mesmerized by biblical shafts of light through storm clouds and hearing ‘ You know Jo ….its gonna rain you know I can feel it……….you know how I know ………..my grandfather, he watched the CNN weather report’.

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Joanne Webb & KLE

Look out for this little fellow on wordpress

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New LOGO

Drowning in a branding problem I have found myself working with a mish mash of different designs and names that have been floating around for an age but nothing cohesive,defined and final.I therefore decided it was high time I created a logo for myself.I wanted it to be linear and have a flow which could represent the graphic and the painterly side of me depending on the products. Something which I can literally stamp on everything I produce. This is the final design – What do you think? It will also be the new online shop front and avatar.

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Twitter

To read a daily update from Joanne Webb then click on the tweets side bar on the right and to view the new twitter inspired design work click on on the ‘Twitter poster’ page.

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New hybrid rework

To see a large version click on the Hybrid artist poster page above.

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Tea, jammy dodgers and works in progress

Desperate for storage space in my bathroom I recently utilized a wooden champagne box and turned it into a vintage shelf.I had cunningly obtained this box not by drinking champagne but working like a dog in a well known off license chain when I was nineteen.By making a general nuisance of myself they eventually gave me the box and then said they needed to let me go making some parting comment to me about how ‘I should think about being self employed’. Anyway years later,in my studio I had used this box as a drying space for my gesso panels and it worked really well as the dimensions were perfect to hold the boards at a slanted angle so that the paint could dry.I happily placed all our bathroom potions and perfumes inside the box and then placed books lovingly on top. Great I thought, my new retro vintage shelf! I sat down afterwards with a cup of tea and a jammy dodger and looked at my tiny piece of Cath Kidston interior country living life that resembled the magazines by the toilet and I felt that I had achieved a little piece of visual heaven.Three days later I realized something. At the bottom of the box I had wrote in pencil ‘works in progress’ and this was now clearly visible. At the time when it was in my studio this little phrase allowed me the fortuitous freedom of painting any old image and not having to justify it.It also reminded me on a daily basis as I painfully analyzed my work from the night before, that although the works in front of me were unfinished and a bit crap, this was okay, as any minute now the pure unadulterated act of genius would flow through my hands from God and a masterpiece would be born. This never happened and I now fear that anybody visiting our toilet will think that I have made a site specific statement statement about the space in which ordinary everyday household objects seemingly now sit juxtaposed in a theatrical setting, a literal landscape made out of bubble bath in which an imagined but real space represents human emotion and comments on the modern world and how life itself is ‘a continual work in progress’. And by god if this had been my way of thinking you can guarantee I would regularly be exhibiting in London.You know it, right?

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no 16

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Saatchi online gallery – panel 2 added

Panel 2 of ‘Girl on Stilts’ has now been added to my Saatchi online gallery. Panel 3 is still to come.

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KLE is live

www.kidsloveearth.wordpress.com

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