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MerchantMerchant

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About Me

MyGen
Shit happens! and I draw it... yes I do.
Am fascinated with human beings, and observe them curiously. Curious fascinating unique creatures!
So very much can be learned from being by yourself for long enough that it feels uncomfortable. Many are too popular to experience that. How unfortunate! Some of my work was produced during periods of some kind of isolation, under the influence of music and writings.. tea.. and perhaps a little alcohol during my cider 'testing' experiments...ahem
My other work involves greeting cards and illustrations for children.. creative outlet for the inner culprit
Remember kids: “There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
Devise du marchand: Take life too seriously not; practice small, large, and random acts of kindness, be grateful for what you DO have... and drink much tea of course :)
Most of my albums are set to friends only.. add me to see, I don't bite! Some of my work is currently for sale on Etsy.com . Also check out MY FLICKR ACCOUNT for recent work and doodles :) . . .

My Interests



Tea, silence, drawing, writing, observing, stalactites and stalagmites, found items, illustration, photograms, geodes, Postsecret, sloths, ink, shipping forecast, mazes, journals, forensics, cavernous interludes, power tools, nature, apparently mountains are good but I've never tried, fossils, the 19th century, crime & deviancy. Apparently I have a fetish for hanging out my flatmates washing.

I'd like to meet:


Blatantly these chaps!!

Recent/past projects:

Scrawlington - Group illustration exhibition 2007 - showcasing final degree work. Exhibited my Goblin Market illustrations.

Etsy Design Face-Off - Designs for Etsy.com merchandise. Images can be found in Myspace album 'New Art and Doodles'.

Camomille - Album artwork for 'Cycles' collaboration on Camomille netlabel.

Moleskine - My journal exhibited for Moleskine at the London Book Fair .

Keep 'em peeled for these:

Rockport Publishers - Featured in upcoming book '1000 Handmade Greeting Cards'.

Lonely Planet Publications - Photograph published in upcoming book Lonely Planet 'A Year of Festivals'

Moleskine - My journal is off to Tokyo for two Moleskine exhibitions! See Myspace 'Recent journal Images' album for some of the images.

Nautical But Nice - August 3rd 2008 - Exhibiting at Cambridge Museum of Technology .

Cake Collective - More info soon!

CHECK OUT MY TOP 16 FOR CREATIVE FRIENDS AND LOCALS! :D

Music:


---------w a n g kore--------. . .
Experimental sample jip-japery!
Listening to at the moment:
♥ AUNTIE PAULINE!
♥ Harmonic33
♥ Yann Tiersen
♥ Kimmo Pohjonen
♥ Gorodisch
♥ A Hawk and a Hacksaw
♥ Venetian Snares
♥ Bonobo
♥ The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
♥ Amon Tobin
♥ Aphex
♥ Kippi Kaninus
Artists from labels such as Ninja Tune, Leaf Label, Planet Mu, Serein, Liquid Recs, Warp Recs, Wild Things Recs, Synergetic Recs. Discovering lots of wicked musicians here on da'space!

Movies:



Ghost films, horror, psychological thrillers, supernatural chillers.
Old sci-fi flicks. Jan Å vankmajer animations. The Pianist. Amelie. Once.Can't pretend I don't enjoy a good rom-com when having a pyjamas & Haagen Dazs in bed day as us girls sometimes do!

Television:

Peep show ...mmm Johnson haha... Crime/forensics doco's. Attenborough. Crimewatch!

Books:


♥ Haruki Murakami's 'Norwegian Wood'
♥ Ernst Haeckel's 'Artforms in Nature'
♥ Sylvia Plath's writings
♥ Lyall Watson's 'Supernature' - (Attenborough on lsd)

I LOVE moleskine journals, especially the pocket sized (cahier) ones, they are small and intimate and just asking you to vomit your emotional disturbance into them :)

My Blog

Need to get driving lessons

Fancy a ride? Bitchez in da front bitchez in da back...
Posted by MerchantMerchant on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:41:00 PST

I am terrified by this dark thing...

Illustrating 'Elm' by one of my favourite writers Sylvia Plath. Thought I'd share it with you...Excerpt from the poem:"I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLook...
Posted by MerchantMerchant on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST

NEW from Making Strangers!

Handmade chore trade gift cards, to pop in the greeting card you give yer nan.Available at Making Strangers shopCheck em out!Werd....
Posted by MerchantMerchant on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST

ULYSSES 31. Aye, they dont make em like this anymore

F-ing LEGEND...
Posted by MerchantMerchant on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:31:00 PST