feathered edges

A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition.
~Clare Whiting

Dark-by-4pm-boredom lead me to paint this Indian peacock canvas and then physical addiction to the painting of smooth round repeated shapes lead me to paint this kitchen wall.




68 feathers; soft, repeated and flowing, that as i painted them reminded me of your kisses.
or was it the other way around? x

now that we've found love......what are we gonna do with it?

If you have spent the long nights of winter 2011 in Glastonbury as i have, you may have spotted these doves carrying a message to remind us that there's just no pleasing some people.
Well, there's just no pleasing me

reflective times in sw7

City VS country is the theme these days, I'm dividing my time between the 2. Gazing through bus windows along the A303 is giving me plenty of time to ponder on which environment is simply better for a girl like me. THEN i realise i dont have to decide, and i find myself in Vauxhall where young children, dogs, pretty flowers, community and craft life exist despite the urban surroundings.
Heres' a garden corner i painted as the seasons turned. I learnt to use mortar, fell in love with raspberry coloured paint, battled with rain, broken mirrors and crumbly old walls! and I thank the Brookes for giving me the challenge.

This is the mock design i worked from using images from THIS incredible flower website
I also found time to skate around Stockwell, eat sushi in Soho and see the sun rise on a stupid night out on Brick lane. now THATS the city life i miss!!!

Heriz Payne Architects Glastonbury

An office mural commission turned into an entirely different project recently when i worked on a huge canvas for a week in solitude instead of having public interaction at each stage as usual.
I was happy to paint in my own space as it helped the non-plan i had of lines and shapes when i started and saved any embarrassment from all of my old cassette mix tapes that i listened to whilst i worked!

As i reflected on my younger years during piles of analoge recordings i couldn't help but feel really very happy about how far we've all come since the Alanis Morrisette era.




Heriz Payne Architects www.herizpayne.com

stats for dinner

so in the period of life organising that i'm going through i'm getting all hooked on numbers
Here's some interesting ones for you
So far, since 2006, i've painted
101 walls
21 boards
16 signs
13 flower pots
10 tables
9 canvases
4 boats
2 doors
and 1 floor

in 8 different countries!

underwater love

To bring a new dimension into the krumble Empire photographic studio, i spent a saturday night in a turquoise dream with my brushes and then dusted off the Ariel costume.



Thanks to the melancholy rhino for his shooting skills and endless patience with girls getting into stupid costumes!!!

Mad about tea and homemade cake

Although my home town of Glastonbury is saturated with independently run cafes, the neighbouring town of Street is the commercial opposite.
Across the road from Starbucks, Costa and Subway, the Mad hatter cafe in Street High st,is thriving on people who want no fuss builders tea, jacket potatoes with coleslaw and good old fruit cake made on the premesis.

Over the last few months i have been slowly decorating the shuttered walls of the cafe to brighten the space and bring some fresh new colours into an old stone building.

Watch out in Tottenham Hale...

Not for bricks coming through your car window, or that shop on fire across the road ! NO!
watch this space for another warehouse celebration of love, North and south of the Equator!.
last year's lacey special will remain as we all get together from far away lands and rejoice in friendships far and wide.... I CAN'T WAIT!

life,death,love and skate in North London

Time flies REEEEEAlly fast when your not rolling. who would have thought it was 2 whole years ago since me and Helen first painted these infamous skulls on the 3 Amigos skate shop on Camden Rd.
2 years of tourists taking photos of the mono-chrome shop front, and of me forgetting to go skating more and more frequently, and then WOW suddenly Petes beard has grown,we're back kneeling on Camden pavements in the August wind/rain/sun, local tourist attraction Amy Winehouse has died of an overdose, and I actually manage to get back on board in time to join my dearest lovenskate boys in the Clissold Bowl.

Now the shop looks like this. and there is a fire starting in my heart.. again.

Here is our little amigo Joe getting stuck in too!

Richbourne Terrace Revisited

The Summer holidays means i get to spend periodical amounts of time in this parallel universe i call "parenting". As a temporary childminder just south of the Thames, i change nappies,peel bananas, learn new things about where the end of my patience actually lies and all as a cover for dishing out business cards in the playground.
Over coffee and toddlers one morning last week i finally got the chance to photograph these "black cherry trees" that i painted way back when i only had 1 working wrist. The plaster cast and the painkillers must have had a worse effect than i thought...is it me or do these trees look drunk?

Womad2011.

Finally got to do some painting in the sun at Womad last week. Been waiting for that ever since i left the Pacific coast! me and Helen Wheels did our bit for a small decor team at this world-wide festival. We got hot, cold, tired, happy, hungry, drunk and barefooted as is the way in the uk summertime. We also made some awesome new art friends
check them out
Phill Harvey .. made me miss skateboarding!
Tim Uleweiz...fell in love with a cow
Dom Williams. Organiser/ teacher extraordinnaire. even without the guyliner









I consider Helen a super and well organised lady, putting in serious time with her art and the correspondance that goes with it, As well as keeping up travelling all over europe with her skateboard. i never really was able to thank her enough for sharing Sydney time with me in her home city in the winter , but now i've shown her a bit of my festival background and we've both got buns of steel from crouching in the grass with our brushes for days.

Glastonbury 41

Since finishing full-time education.... the university of life has brought me many many lessons in many different things. factory work and t-shirt printing taught me how to deal with monotonus work that feels like its never going to end. Life in London town taught me that it's OK to not waste precious time with fools. Front crawl in chlorinated pools across the globe has taught me that discipline is important for progression, and more recently a little furry friend of mine has taught me how to sleep properly, finally.
BUT never before my midsummer times in the Park Field have i had anybody teach me how to paint. working for Misty and Reg in the Park farm corner of the glastonbury site, rain or shine.. each year, is my most invaluable learning time. I get to see others weilding brushes or cans or pens in the way in which they know how and i come out more technically brimming with tips than i ever did exiting the LCC turnstiles.
Some do it for the money
others for the love
i do it for the knowledge.... (and access to a backstage shower!)








This is Mr Fly who doesnt know it but is by far my favourite teacher. he is seriously PRO.




The local end of the festival was also graced with my brushes. Me and the krumble empire were busy before hand making well-needed T+C signage....
more in 2013.......

Going Potty

Time between sitting at my kitchen table and admiring my newly sprouted lawn has been spent painting up flower pots.. all sizes and colours! .... can you tell i've been dreaming about going to Mexico???
All for sale! just ask......

Party packs revisited. cheer up love!

I'm not going to lie, rural life is starting to get me down. bike rides and walking puppies in meadows and going to bed early is making me feel like i'm missing out on something.
This weekend i painted an explosive mural in an office filled with everything fun that you could think of.... www.partypacks.co.uk

wigs, ribbons, baloons, banners, bunting , bangers and giant inflatable willys as far as the eye can see..... ..
whopee! i thought as i popped party poppers to myself,painted bottles of champagne , listened to carnival music on my i pod and gazed a bit out of the window a the stunning somerset countryside...
When i'd finished successfully cheering up this office i wanted to go and celebrate but here i am instead in bed at 9.30 pm. ! Party on.

Look HERE at their extensive online catalogue and look here > at what i also painted in party packs back in 2008! Fiesta!

Friday 13th. Birthday reflections...

WOW! a whole year since i painted this for Miss Milstein in an 8hour surge of special-day energy..

OH MY GOD ! a whole 27 years since we were both born into this world!
I hope the Bovril Building is full of fun and laughter today.. love you long time Jeanne!

surfs up in my bathroom:)

Bit by bit my dream of living in an eccentric old house is coming true!... not only has my kitchen full of butterflies survived without me all winter....

but with all the bank holidays recently, i've had all the time in the world to reflect on my recent times in the pacific ocean.. and get on hands and knees to re-create something awesome and aqua coloured on my bathroom floor. Yes! painted floorboards are the new big thing.. didn't you know.?

Rebels loo

Getting ready for the festival season in true compost style........ i decorated the outdoor eco- toilet for the boys and gals at rebels yard.