My Christmas card design 2016

My Artwork

Here is some of my artwork from recent months. I've been busy working on several projects and on weekends doing comedy courses so have neglected my blog!

She Devil

Even the synopsis for the film is hilarious 

"Housewife and mother Ruth Patchett (Roseanne Barr), an overweight and unkempt woman vows revenge on her husband....."

Leicester Square Comedy

These are some photos taken during the CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation show in Leicester square Theatre in September. Above, the detective is questioning my character who is rather creepy looking. The character I played (because its all improvised) started off relatively non suspicious but as the show went on I started to look more guilty until the final scene when the audience cheered for me as their 'murderer'. Whoever is chosen as the murderer must confess why they committed the act; which in this show was killing a pet psychiatrist with ginger.

The divine comedy

This video is very funny!

How can you leave me on my own

THE DIVINE COMEDY

Summer Exhibition 2016

 Earlier in the summer I went to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016. Though I enjoyed the show, there were few pieces that really stood out to me but the ones that did I've included below. Being encouraged to take photos on our phones felt bizarre in a gallery setting. I neglected to sketch or write about the pieces and photographed them instead promising myself to revisit them at a later date.   

Lucille Moore

FLUFFY WOMEN

I really like the simplicity and humor of this piece. The fluffy little tufts are innocent and playful thus making this piece the most memorable for me in the entire show

Cathie Pilkington

DEGAS DOLL

Pippa Gatty

PEZ

Liz Rideal

DAPHNE 

This hovering fabric seems not to be of this world but looking at this dreamy piece fills me with tranquility

 

Edinburgh

My festival experience included: Tattie scones, Ceilidh dancing, performing in a cave, flyering on the Royal Mile, seeing shows, drinking whiskey, Vegetarian haggis, karaoke, meeting Vicki Pepperdine (a comedy idol of mine), midnight feasts, candlelit dinners, being asked to leave a circus tent, sleeping in a grand four poster bed, having ice cream factory at pizza hut, sitting in an audience for a show while my friend James was straddled by the performer beside me and getting to perform in a fully sold out show!

Edinburgh Festival 2016

 2016 has been my first year visiting and performing at Edinburgh Festival and it's been a blast! This beautiful city is filled with artists, visitors and locals in a celebration of creativity, comedy and joy! 'CSI Crime Scene improvisation' the show I'm part of had a fully SOLD OUT run in Cabaret Voltaire.

 The amount of shows to see is overwhelming and though I would've loved to have seen more this is the selection I did manage to see:

• The Gin Chronicles: A Scottish Adventure artSpace@St Marks  
• Foil, Arms and Hog: DoomDah Underbelly, Cowgate 
• Damien Clark Can't slow down Cabaret Voltaire
• Conor Drum: All My Friends Are Dead Cabaret Voltaire  
• Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan: Talking to Strangers Assembly George Square
• Jollyboat: Seven Songs for Geeks Movement
• Dave Lemkin: The Village Hall Ciao Roma  
• Kill the Beast: He Had Hairy Hands Pleasance Courtyard P2
• Norris & Parker: See You at the Gallows Pleasance Courtyard The Attic
• Ellis & Rose: Obsolete Cabaret Voltaire
• Alice Fraser: Savage City Cafe
• Kayleigh and her ukulele Titter Truck Grassmarket 
• Yeti's Demon Dive Bar Pleasance Courtyard P2 
• The Travelling Sisters Pleasance 
• Revan and Fennell: Fan Club Just the tonic at The Caves
• Greater Belfast Traverse Theatre  
•  Plague of Idiots: Waltzing Matilda The Caves

My Awards 

JUNE

These are some images I've found that I'm enjoying for June

Here are some things I've attended/enjoyed in June

Books I've enjoyed in June 

I'm currently reading a lot of short stories after loving Roald Dahl's collection of stories 'Kiss Kiss' so much. If you haven't read 'Kiss Kiss' you really should, the stories contain all the wit and imagination featured in Dahl's children stories only these are darker and saucier!

I only discovered Lorrie Moore after reading Carrie Brownstein's memoir Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl where she mentioned her fondness for Lorries work. Lorries style is very lonely, wistful, raw and funny so I cant wait to read more of her books (she is my new favorite).

I picked A cruel bird came to the nest and looked in based solely on the front cover (ha) and the strange name. It was a very surreal read but very visual/strange/memorable.

I go through stages of reading lots/cant get enough then other times where I spend months on one book. I'm glad to have the reading bug atm, devouring all I can.

This is the lighting my boyfriend Jack did for a recent event. I just liked it so much I wanted to put it here. He gets to visit some pretty lovely places!

Lastly, is an image from the Queens birthday celebrations. The poor guard fainted but I cant help think this image looks like it belongs in a Monty Python sketch.

May 14th-16th

These 3 days featured my favourite things: the seaside, comedy, music and plenty of laughter! Starting at the Brighton Fringe Festival, CSI Crime Scene Improvisation returned to the Quadrant for 2 more sell out shows. Saturdays show was set in a boutique hospital where I played a patient with chronic boils and Sundays show featured a murdered bee keeper. 

Completely out of character for me I forgot to bring I.D resulting in me being asked to leave a pub at 9pm as 'minors were not allowed past this time'. The rest of my group tried persuading the bouncers I was in fact 27 but they insisted the minor must leave. I wasn't insulted. We found somewhere else nicer anyhow. On the train journey back to London I convinced a man Sarah was a judge. It started off fun but then he ranted about his hatred for the legal system....

 

On Monday 16th I saw 'The Vaudevillians' at the Soho Theatre with my old friend Sam. Sam knows Jinkx Monsoon so we were able to spend time with her after the show- she's incredible! Jinkx played  Kitty Witless an intoxicated Vaudeville starlette who'd been frozen alive since the 20s. Her warbling, cackling, meowing Kitty was a delight to watch as she flung herself across the stage, writhing on the piano and purring on the chaise lounge. Jinkx was my favourite drag queen from 'Ru Pauls Drag Race' from the moment she entered season 5 in the big floppy hat. Her energy live is contagious, you cant help squeal with delight as her character turns from sweet to malicious.

Its always so nice when someone you've admired on tv turns out to be so fantastic in real life

May

 

 

 

Dominican Mermaid

After spending so much time in the sea I was inspired to do a drawing of a mermaid. It was a quick drawing but I plan on doing more/spending more time on one

Wedding in the Dominican

This was my first wedding I've attended as an adult and it was an absolute joy. A destination wedding in the Dominican Republic surrounded by sea, friends, hot rainstorms and plenty of all inclusive cocktails. 

Some highlights include: sitting under a full moon with my legs in the sea at midnight, dancing on the beach with fellow wedding guests, sitting drenched but happy in the rain as the bride walked down the isle under the cover of umbrellas, hearing about the bride and groom as children by their mothers during the wedding speeches, holding a monkey and feeling his rubbery little paws in my hands, seeing parrots, having a morning cup of tea on our balcony that overlooked palm trees and the distant sea, ordering room service at 1am, laughing, swimming and snorkeling!